"Dave" wrote

Not obfuscating at all. What Hamilton said is that the doctrine of
enumerated powers on which you're relying doesn't apply in the area of
foreign relations. ...

But Daud, who cares what Hamilton thot? Madison and other Virginians wrote
the Constitution and better knew what it meant than some damnyankee who got
himself shot to death in a duel by the second most popular man in America,
VP Burr.