Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶232
The power to regulate external affairs included power over foreign commerce. At the founding, the “external executive power” included “ `the transactions of the state with any other independent state.' ” Zivotofsky, 576 U. S., at 36 (opinion of Thomas, J.). In Great Britain, the King had no unilateral legislative power, McConnell 107, but he had much unilateral power over foreign commerce. His power over foreign commerce included the power to “govern foreign trade,” id., at 216, and to “prohibit any of his subjects from leaving the realm,” 1 Blackstone 261; accord, East India Co. v. Sandys, Skin. 223, 223–224, 90 Eng. Rep. 103 (K. B. 1684) (describing the “inherent prerogative in the Crown, that none should trade with foreigners without the King's licence”). Thomas Rutherforth's Institutes of Natural Law— “a treatise routinely cited by the Founders,” Zivotofsky, 576 U. S., at 36…Read in context ›
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