The Senate and Treaties, 1789-1817
The Development of the Treaty-Making Functions of the United States Senate During Their Formative Period
Ralston Hayden, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Press, 1920
In Senate and Treaties, 1789–1817, Ralston Hayden traces the early history of treaty-making within the United States Senate over the course of twenty-five years, beginning with the Senate’s first treaty negotiation. Hayden calls this era the “formative period in the history of the treaty-making functions of the Senate,” during which time the expectations of the Senate’s functions underwent great changes.
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