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To: neverdem
It would have to be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate. If so (unlikely), it still wouldn't be enforced here.

"This Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty" (Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17).

Constitutional Limitations on the Treaty Power
Justia.com
http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/19-constitutional-limitations-on-treaty-power.html

Excerpt:
“As statutes may be held void because they contravene the Constitution, it should follow that treaties may be held void, the Constitution being superior to both. And indeed the Court has numerous times so stated.”

TREATIES DO NOT SUPERCEDE THE CONSTITUTION
http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/Articles/Treaties.htm


8 posted on 06/05/2013 3:15:54 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

I’m sorry, but this is an interpretation of the Constitution in one of its early incarnations, you know, before it was shocked into a breathing, living document that is meant to keep up with the times without the need to actually amend the thing in accordance with its terms. S/

Now, it is more like the Pirate code, more a set of guidelines than rules...


11 posted on 06/05/2013 4:14:40 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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