longtooth wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:The treaty has to be approved by a 2/3 vote of the Senate before the president can ratify it, giving it the force of law in the U.S. If the treaty requires any expenditure of U.S. funds to enforce it as law in the U.S., the House of Representatives can block the funding of it, rendering it de facto irrelevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification#United_StatesDave2 wrote:Dick Morris was just on Fox News claiming that the UN will vote on the gun control treaty this month. Is this something we need to worry about, or am I correct in thinking that the constitution overrides treaties?
Furthermore, even if ratified, a later Congress can repeal ratification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause#Repeal
It is a concern that the UN is voting on this, further confirming their immorality and irrelevance to U.S. law, but I don't think it is quite the cause for panic that some feel.
Hope you are right.
I am not panicing. As I teach in class: I dont want anyone paranoid. I what them prepared.
I am not panicing just preparing.
Continuing to reload.
I didn't believe Judge Roberts would have voted the way he did either, concerning Obama Care, just saying...