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To: 21stCenturyFreeThinker

Then according to you international agreements this country has signed on to mean nothing if our laws trump them.

Our Congress, you know the people that write the same laws, decides what treaties this country enters into in the form of ratification or the acceptance of the treaty terms by that portion of our government that makes the laws.

It certainly is an odd position to be in to say it is OK for this country to break a treaty that Congress agreed to just so we can have as our next president a man that may very well be a naturalized citizen of not just the United States but possibly of the United Kingdom, Kenya, Indonesia, and maybe even Canada because our laws according to you, still should allow him to run for the highest office in our land. The One office which our founding fathers sought to keep free from foreign citizens.


4,644 posted on 08/09/2008 9:00:15 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: usmcobra
Then according to you international agreements this country has signed on to mean nothing if our laws trump them.
Yes
It certainly is an odd position to be in to say it is OK for this country to break a treaty that Congress agreed to just so we can have as our next president a man that may very well be a naturalized citizen of not just the United States ...
It would be much odder to allow Constitutional rights to be given away by treaty.

Look at it this way. Laws are declared unconstitutional all the time even though they are passed by the legislature. Treaties have even lower status that US law. For example we have been violating the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for some time now. No formal withdraw from the treaty was required, we just did it.

4,650 posted on 08/09/2008 9:24:06 PM PDT by 21stCenturyFreeThinker
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