[Tulane]

Rediculous...how was this act unconstitutional????????

[w6ai5q37b]

Wake up. The Constitution states that it is the supreme law of the land.

By signing on to CAFTA, we have made CAFTA regulations superior to the regulations Congress comes up with. Hence CAFTA has been made superior to the Constitution. This is already going on with NAFTA. And the WTO.

The Constitution also says that Congress shall regulate trade, no one else. Not even a CAFTA tribunal.

Have even thought who will be implementing CAFTA regulations? Not anyboday you will be able to control.

[Ex-expromissor]

"Rediculous...how was this act unconstitutional????????"

"The Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the authority to regulate international trade."  "Neither Congress nor the President can give this authority away by treaty, any more than they can repeal the First Amendment by treaty." -Ron Paul...

The plain text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is incontrovertible...

"The Congress shall have Power To... regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes..."

CAFTA (along with the other so called "free" trade agreements) has clearly given that power over to the World Trade Organization... A bunch of foreign and unelected bureaucrats are now illegally controlling/regulating US trade. Yes... I have a major problem with that...

And again... Most all of the support for CAFTA on the floor last night centered on the belief that CAFTA was badly needed to help these Central American Countries... The debate was overwhelmingly about the benfit of CAFTA for THEM... not US. Not too complicated IMHO.