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To: John Lenin
It's time to face the facts people, the US Constitution has been overhtrown.

The Founding Lawyers never wanted to protect liberty if they did they would have done so. Everything the government is doing to us today is perfectly Constitutional.

They are just getting us used to the fact that we are no longer governed by the constitution, when we sign on to Kyoto, it will be complete.

Did you know that it only takes two senators and the president to ratify a treaty and that a treaty has equal legal footing with the Constitution itself.

Thats where all the enviromental authority comes from. People have been prosecuted and convicted of duck hunting by the Feds for essentially violating a treaty we signed with Britian !! No consent of the governed required.

30 posted on 06/27/2003 7:28:10 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
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To: AdamSelene235
Think about whats going on right now, we just created the largest entitlement program since the Great Society and we are getting tax cuts to boot. Is W trying to bankrupt the US ?
34 posted on 06/27/2003 7:35:54 PM PDT by John Lenin (Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them)
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To: AdamSelene235
Did you know that it only takes two senators and the president to ratify a treaty and that a treaty has equal legal footing with the Constitution itself.

The "two-thirds of senators present" problem is why I am a big advocate of amending Article VI to say "two-thirds of all Senators." However, I cannot agree that treaties have equal footing with the Constitution, especially those multilateral treaties that allow signatories to change the treaty after the fact. There is case law to that effect.

36 posted on 06/27/2003 7:40:52 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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