This post-mortem film taken in a patient with severe blunt trauma to the chest and a left tension pneumothorax illustrates the classic features of a tension: 1  Deviation of the trachea away from the side of the tension.  Shift of the mediastinum.
The Constitution gives the President the power to commit the United States to treaties â but only with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the US Senate, and only if the agreement does not contravene the Constitution. The process to ratify a treaty may be lengthy, but it is relatively straight forward:
The President...shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... Constitution of the United States, Art.