Sinn Fein says the Good Friday agreement did not make executive posts dependent on prior decommissioning.
The U.S. has made roughly 1,100 treaties in its history, but it has made about 18,500 executive agreements — 17,300 of them since 1939.
(See, for example, Nigel Purvis's work on executive agreements).
For decades, presidents have been making more frequent use of executive orders, signing statements and agency regulations, as well as sole executive agreements with other nations (instead of treaties or Congressionally authorized international agreements).
George warned in the Senate, "I do not want a president of the U.S. to conclude an executive agreement which will make it unlawful for me to kill a cat in the back alley of my lot at night and I do not want the President of the U.S. to make a treaty with India which would preclude me from butchering a cow in my own pasture".
Our system allows statutes, known as Congressional-executive agreements, to make some international agreements.
The solution, according to a new paper by Peter Cebon, of the Melbourne Business School, and Benjamin Hermalin, a finance professor at the University of California's Haas School of Business, is for the government to limit performance-based executive contracts and make informal pay agreements more attractive.
The executives said that CBS had authorized the company to make new agreements with the key members of Mr. Letterman's staff, his producers and writers.
Michael D. Weekes, chief executive of Providers Council, a trade association representing organizations that provide human services in Massachusetts, said that more and more cities and towns in that state were pressing nonprofit groups to make similar agreements.
Congress meekly acquiesced in the JCPOA as an executive agreement.
