Very good post. I read the article that started this post and didn't really find the statements by the Justices all that controversial. I think the jist of what they were saying is that as globalization progresses (which it will, despite what Pat Buchanan-esque Paleo-cons and left-wing anti-globalists may hope) we'll be entering an era where the US, and all other countries, will enter into treaties to regulate commerce, intellectual property, cross-border crime etc. I didn't read the article to mean the those treaties will override our Constitution. Rather, I saw the justices as raising issues that our legislatures, courts and international negotiators will all have to consider in the future. The inflammatory article heading made the Justices' comments seem much more controversial than they really were, IMO.