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To: Red Steel

Takes 67 senators to ratify a treaty. Won’t happen. But Obama MAY simply pass an “executive order.”


45 posted on 11/15/2012 1:38:08 PM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: pabianice

And simple be ignored because of it lacks legality of congressional statutory authority and would be in violation of well a understood Constitutional right. It would be overturned.


51 posted on 11/15/2012 1:52:18 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: pabianice
Takes 67 senators to ratify a treaty.

BZZZZT!!! Wrongo!

According to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution for the United States, "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;"

That means 34 can do it legally, although there is indication it has been done with fewer that two thirds of a legal quorum. Feeling so fat, dumb, and happy now?

To learn more about this original Trojan horse within the Constitution go here.

96 posted on 11/15/2012 5:38:39 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party: advancing indenture since 1787.)
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