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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Without senate confirmation, the signature is meaningless.

No, it's not. Pursuant to the government's 40 years of illegal adherence to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, administrative agencies will be committed to not do anything to contravene the treaty, even with just a signature. It's "customary international law."

19 posted on 06/03/2013 12:59:22 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Like the Law of the Sea ?


61 posted on 06/03/2013 2:55:26 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: Carry_Okie

The Vienna Treaty did not supercede the ratification requirements of the Constitution, period. Most other nations join a treaty when their chief executive signs it. But we do not, and the Vienna treaty did not change the very structure of the constitution.

Our Republican structure requiring Senatorial assent to the Presidents signature is still firmly in place. The rest of the world, and despotic Presidents, love to imagine that a Presidential signature binds us as it does most nations, but it certainly doesn’t.


102 posted on 06/03/2013 10:54:46 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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