Posted on 07/21/2012 12:48:54 PM PDT by opentalk
It's widely known that the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), being negotiated as I type, is simply gun control by another name. Although it is being sold as a treaty to lessen the number of guns moving across borders illegally, it will ultimately require a national gun registry to be enforceable: perhaps even an international gun registry.
And while all of us should be contacting our Senators to demand they refuse to ratify this ridiculous treaty when it comes before them, it behooves us also to remind them (and ourselves) that the 2nd Amendment transcends any U.N. treaty at any time and any place in this country.
Our Founding Fathers recognized that part of our birthright as humans in general, but Americans in particular, is the possession of natural rights that cannot be controlled, denied, or otherwise constricted by a man-made government. They took pains to communicate this to us via the Bill of Rights, , in which one of the rights they explicitly listed was the right to keep and bear arms.
According to the Founders, the right not only to keep arms but also to bear the arms we keep, "shall not be infringed."
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“They do. Routinely. Lots of them. FedGov even enforces the terms of treaties that were not ratified. “
Yes there are many unconstitutional things out there, but Constitutionally speaking a treaty can’t trump the constitution. That would bypass the amendment process. Liberals like to argue that since a treaty becomes law of the land it can trump the constitution but that’s wrong. It’s much the same argument that the constitution is a “living document” that is malleable to change with the time. It’s just an argument to try to end run the amendment process.
That was clearly the original intent. The Federalists were having enough trouble selling the thing as it was. Henry saw through it. Few others did.
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