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To: grobdriver

Once it is ratified by the states, then it becomes the law of the land.


3 posted on 03/21/2013 7:59:12 AM PDT by cll (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me)
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To: cll
Interesting reading on this topic

I did not watch the video, but read the text.

23 posted on 03/21/2013 8:30:01 AM PDT by grobdriver (Vivere liberi aut mori)
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To: cll
Once it is ratified by the states, then it becomes the law of the land.

Uh, according to Article II, Section 2, Clause, 2 of the Constitution, that would be by "two thirds of the Senators present," not the several States. But you have a bigger problem than that.

According to "customary international law" pursuant to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (which we never ratified), once it has been signed, the government has agreed not to contravene the treaty, the Constitution in effect notwithstanding. The government of the United States has abided by that treaty (illegally) ever since it went into effect.

29 posted on 03/21/2013 8:38:08 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: cll
Once it is ratified by the states, then it becomes the law of the land.

States do not ratify treaties; they ratify amendments to the Constitution.

44 posted on 03/21/2013 9:17:17 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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