Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Treaty from climate conference could alter operation of Constitution

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In December, there will be a 12-day Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. "Climate change," of course, means "global warming." It seems that the outcome of the conference has been predetermined since there is a treaty, which has already been written, to be signed at the end of the conference... [snip]

These issues were reignited following World War II and our admission into the United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations. Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio, like Lodge before him, feared the possibility of de facto amendment of the Constitution by a treaty. His attempt failed, by one vote, in 1954.

However, in 1957, in Reid v. Covert, the Supreme Court held that a treaty cannot take precedence over the Constitution. That is, as constitutional law stands now, even if we were to ratify the Copenhagen treaty, it could not operate to surrender our sovereignty to the U.N. as a one-world government...

[Now imagine a re-vote with the crew we've in congress now...]



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