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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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To: 21stCenturyFreeThinker

Our rights are given away by treaty all the time, in fact you may not realize this but outside of our borders our rights are almost nonexistent in other countries.

The only rights we have outside of our borders are guaranteed by those treaties you would ignore for the sake of Obama’s candidacy.

The nation we entered into the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with no longer exists, so why would we keep a treaty with a country or a government that doesn’t exist.

Do we keep treaties we signed with the Nazis with the present government of Germany?


4,652 posted on 08/09/2008 9:35:24 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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