Posted on 09/04/2016 5:52:28 AM PDT by Ray76
Ask Obama.....
Unless Congress aggressively asserts its power, the Executive can play fast and loose.
(The longer historical overview is quite revealing):
http://constitution.findlaw.com/article2/annotation12.html
...The Constitution recognizes a distinction between ‘treaties’ and ‘agreements’ or ‘compacts’ but does not indicate what the difference is...
...International Organizations .—Overlapping of the treaty-making power through congressional-executive cooperation in international agreements is also demonstrated by the use of resolutions approving the United States joining of international organizations and participating in international conventions...
That’s the true agenda.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
According to the UN, we are.
This is based upon the numbers that countries voluntarily report.
The operative phrase here being “according to the UN”.
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