The Courts and Foreign Affairs at the Founding.

NEUTRALITY; AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; FOREIGN relations of the United States; UNITED States politics & government; COURTS; HISTORY

The article focuses on the impact of Neutrality Crisis that came after the American Revolution on the U.S. foreign relations. Topics discussed include history of political background; Washington administration's attempt in mobilizing the federal judiciary for responding to the privateering controversy and the courts initial rejection of that approach; and federal court role in the Neutrality Crisis focusing on the executive-judicial relationships in foreign affairs.