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NAFTA:

The impetus for NAFTA actually began with President Ronald Reagan, who campaigned on a North American common market. In 1984, Congress passed the Trade and Tariff Act. This is important because it gave the President “fast-track” authority to negotiate free trade agreements, while only allowing Congress the ability to approve or disapprove, not change negotiating points. Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney agreed with Reagan to begin negotiations for the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, which was signed in 1988, went into effect in 1989 and is now suspended since it’s no longer neeeded. (Source: NaFina, NAFTA Timeline)

http://useconomy.about.com/od/tradepolicy/p/NAFTA_History.htm

Normally when conservative politicians make dog-whistle appeals to their base, they do so in right-wing publications. They do an interview with World Net Daily or Breitbart or call in for a radio hit with Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin to get their message across.

However, the genius of Ted Cruz is that he launched a 10,000-word broadside, replete with 181 footnotes, against the scale and scope of the modern federal government this week in a publication considered by many to be the bastion of liberal elitism—the Harvard Law Review. In the article, one can see within the tight legal argument appeals to those on the far right concerned about Agenda 21, NAFTA superhighways, or any of a range of other conspiracy theories, yet all buried within the tight legal argument and presented in a high-minded way that passes muster in Cambridge, Mass.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-harvard-law-manifesto-031910511—politics.html

Ted Cruz’s Harvard Law Manifesto
[The Daily Beast]
Ben Jacobs
January 10, 2014

GET YOUR FREE COPY HERE!

https://www.hslda.org/landingpages/crpd/docs/Cruz_Limits_on_the_Treaty_Power.pdf