| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail. By William R. Casto. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 202 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003- 629-3.)
Naval battles between the French and the British leading to the Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 provide the backdrop for Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sail, but the broader issue of presidential and congressional control of foreign policy forms the nucleus of the book. The law professor William R. Casto conclusively demonstrates the relevance of the issues President George Washington and the members of his administration faced in the "first major foreign affairs crisis under the Constitution" to the conduct of foreign policy today (p. 1).	1
For readers familiar with Franco-American relations during the early republic, the book surprises in its first pages because Jean-Baptiste François Bompard, captain of the French frigate L'Embuscade, emerges as the chief French protagonist rather than Edmond Charles Genêt, French minister to the United States. Because of the treaties of 1778, the French enjoyed special rights in the United States during wartime. The extent of those rights, however, was ill defined, and it was the success of Bompard and French privateers in seizing British ships that caused Washington to issue—and then others to defend—the Neutrality Proclamation.	. . .

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