[EXCH54FE]

By ignoring this, the white paper also ignores a broad point about the U.S. Unlike most nations, the U.S. has both the Second Amendment and a federal system. The latter fact means that, in some policy areas, it is difficult to draft multilateral treaties that the U.S. can accept, because most nations do not have a federal system.

For example, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child covers matters that in the U.S. are the responsibility of the states, localities, and families—not the national government, which is one reason no administration has transmitted it to the Senate.

[bunkerhill7]

My drone is a combat airplane.

[Pontiac]

For example, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child covers matters that in the U.S. are the responsibility of the states, localities, and families—not the national government, which is one reason no administration has transmitted it to the Senate.

Absolutely correct.

Unfortunately Congress and the President more and more pass laws those Federalize crimes that should be strictly under the purview of the state.

So don’t expect this Congress and President or future Congresses and Presidents to respect the limits on the Federal government when it come to the Rights of the Child or the 2nd Amendment.

Government will respect the rights of the states or the people only so long as they forced to by the states or the people. For proof of this I will give you Obama Care.

[Standing Wolf]

Trust the American Bar Association anywhere near the nation's civil rights?

No, thank you!

[GenXteacher]

American Bar Association

Gee, what a patriotic, trustworthy organization../sarc

[familyop]

"“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

[familyop]

Treaties

Curtis W. Caine, MD
Hacienda Publishing

[Excerpt:]

Thomas Jefferson was clear on this point: "If the treaty power is unlimited, then we don't have a Constitution. Surely the President and the Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way." Alexander Hamilton agreed: "a treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country or which infringes any express exceptions to the power of the Constitution of the United States."(2)

In spite of all of the obvious above, some people doggedly insist that "treaties supersede the Constitution" because they want treaties to supersede the Constitution so they can escape the chains of the Constitution! And they plan and scheme relentlessly toward achieving that end. Some even boast of having made an end run around the Constitution.

[familyop]

Why Obama-Backed UN Treaties Can’t Trample Constitution
By Doug Book
The Western Center for Journalism
"Informing and Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom"

[familyop]

The bar associations of various states lobbied in favor of the ongoing divorce/cohabitation regime (and bad laws in other areas) and are not to be trusted.