Monday, July 30, 2012

UN Treaties or US Constitution?

"The U.S. Constitution trumps any provision of any U.S. Treaty. Period end of story, so politicians can insert any language they want into a Treaty, but at the end of the day any provision in conflict with our constitution loses. Missouri v. Holland, 252 U.S. 416 (1920)("[a] Treaty cannot be valid if it infringes upon the Constitution"). In other words the President is forbidden from executing in a Treaty what Congress is barred from doing."  This explanation comes from a video found at Prison Planet.  So, to answer the question of which trumps what--does a UN Treaty trump the US Constitution?  I don't know. 

Friday, June 29, 2012

Constitution Not Enough to Restrain the State: The Right of Secession was/is Necessary.

"Jeffersonians never believed that a written constitution alone would be enough to restrain the tyrannical proclivities of the state.  That's why Jefferson himself championed the rights of secession and nullification until his dying day."

The beltwaytarians will never admit this, for to do so is to dispute the state's false version of the "Civil War" and its consequences, and they are far too politically correct to do so.  It was Woodrow Wilson who, in his book on Congressional Government, celebrated the fact that the North's victory in the "Civil War" brought about the practice of the Supreme Court being the sole arbiter of the constitutitonality of federal legislation.  The Jeffersonians never believed that a written constitution alone would be sufficient to restrain the tyrannical proclivities of the state.  That's why Jefferson himself  championed the rights of secession and nullification until his dying day.