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To: Carry_Okie

Never gonna happen. There will never be 67 votes for this monstrosity.

Worry about something that could really happen.


22 posted on 08/07/2011 9:44:01 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
There will never be 67 votes for this monstrosity.

Did you flunk high school civics? I suggest you read that article, because you obviously don't know what you are talking about.

It does not take two thirds of the Senate to ratify a treaty. If one takes the language in the Constitution literally, it can be done with two. Allow me to quote the relevant passage from Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution for the United States,

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;

Not two thirds of the Senate, not 67 votes, but two thirds of whoever happens to be in session. Treaties have been ratified without even a quorum. Hence, in theory, a treaty can be ratified by but TWO (2) Senators and voila! there your have the Supreme Law of the Land per Article VI. It was a Trojan Horse in the Constitution to which Patrick Henry's objected intensely in the Virginia Ratifying Convention.

I suggest you read the article.

Further, the United States has committed to abiding by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which was itself not ratified but is considered "customary international law." That Convention states that a treaty may be considered in force upon the signature of any government official appointed to represent the head of state.

That is the reality of this situation. I suggest you get your callow head out of your butt and fight this "monstrosity" because that is indeed what it is.

25 posted on 08/07/2011 10:12:23 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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