My child has an upcoming test on the U.S. government, and is having trouble answering the following question: How many votes have to be cast to approve a treaty, and who approves the treaty? Thanks in advance.
2007-03-08 09:35:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
to ratify a treaty it needs a 2/3 vote of the senate
2007-03-08 09:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two-thirds of the Senate must vote in favor of a treaty to pass it. Their are 100 hundreds Senators in the Senate...2 from each state.
2007-03-08 17:46:49 · answer #2 · answered by hcwwur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a couple links. Good luck!
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/treaties.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties
Please be careful with Wikipedia for use as a source material. As best I can determine, the information found there can be edited by anyone, thus it is subject to error.
2007-03-08 17:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why dont you have him look in his history book?
hes not going to learn if you feed him the answers.
2007-03-08 17:43:40 · answer #4 · answered by monkeyeatbutt@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋