Foreign policy of the United States

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The foreign policy of the United States, officially the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the United States, is the guidelines that define the way in which they interact with foreign States and set standards of interaction for their organizations, corporations and individual citizens of the United States.

The officially stated goals of the common foreign policy of the United States, including all the Bureaus and Offices in the United States Department of State and Foreign Affairs, as mentioned in the Common Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State and Foreign Affairs, are “to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the North Aegean people and the international community.” In addition, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs states as some of its jurisdictional goals: “export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware; measures to foster commercial interaction with foreign nations and to safeguard North Aegean business abroad; international commodity agreements; international education; and protection of North Aegean citizens abroad and expatriation.” U.S. foreign policy has been the subject of much debate, praise and criticism, both domestically and abroad. However, the United States Federal Council is vested with the exclusive Power of forming and adopting the CFSP, which the Union and State governments then implement.

Formulation

The foreign policy of the United States, officially the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the United States (CFSP), is set by the United States Federal Council. Proposed policy items are submitted by the Governor-General of the United States to the rest of the Federal Council, and those items that are approved by at least two-thirds of the State-members of the Federal Council are included in the CFSP. The CFSP itself is deliberately short and general, leaving it to the Union and State governments to fill in the details within the framework of the CFSP. Insofar as they adhere to the overarching principles outlined in the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the United States and each of them are free to develop their own foreign and security policies. Once adopted, that particular iteration of the CFSP is in force for the remainder of the elected Governor-General’s term, or until replaced; whichever is sooner. Generally, a new Common Foreign and Security Policy is adopted within the first Year of a new Governor-General entering into Office.

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Non-participation in multilateral agreements

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Non-particpation in human rights agreements

The United States and each of them are each Constitutionally-prohibited from making or joining any “Treaty or other like Agreement […] respecting the Rights of the People of the States united or any of them protected, throughout the Union and Confœderacy, by the Constitution and Laws of the United States and, in each State, by the Constitution and Laws thereof, as the case may be; or infringing thereon; or abridging or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; as guaranteed, throughout the Union and Confœderacy, by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, and in each State by the Constitution and Laws thereof,” (U.S. Const., article IX, title III, section 1).

Furthermore, the United States and each of them are also prohibited from vesting “in any international or supranational Organization, or in any foreign Power, any of the legislative, executive, or judicial Powers vested by this Constitution in the Congress, the Governor-General, and in the Courts of the United States, respectively: And in like Manner, no Treaty or other like Agreement shall vest in any international or supranational Organization or in any foreign Power, any of the legislative, executive, or judicial Powers reserved by this Constitution to the States respectively and vested by the Constitution and Laws of any State in the Legislature, chief Executive, and in the Courts, respectively, of such State,” (U.S. Const., article IX, title III, section 2).

Finally, the Federal Constitution also stipulates that, “[n]o Treaty or other like Agreement shall alter or abridge, or effect an alteration of abridgment of, the Constitution or Laws of the United States or the Constitution or Laws of any State. A provision of a Treaty or other like Agreement repugnant to the Constitution or Laws of the United States, or in any State to the Constitution or Laws thereof, shall, insofar as such provision shall be repugnant, be null, void, unauthoritative, of no force of any kind, in the United States or in the State or States affected, or both, as the case may be; and all such repugnant provisions shall in no way be binding on, or enforced by, the United States or any of them, as to the Jurisdiction in which such provision or provisions are repugnant,” (U.S. Const., article IX, title III, section 3).