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To: Prokopton
The US is a signatory to the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

The US is not a Signatory to the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention.

>/i> It gets more interesting than that. When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?

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837 posted on 06/29/2006 2:27:14 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa.)
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To: bIlluminati

"When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?"

Jimmy Carter did this in 1979, not Nixon. Carter was sued by Congress and the Supreme Court ruled on it in Goldwater v. Carter:

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/143/


838 posted on 06/29/2006 2:43:40 PM PDT by Prokopton
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