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Nuclear Unicorn

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5. Case precedence: treaties, international agreements, etc CANNOT trump constitutional rights

Reply to wildbilln864 (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 03:38 PM

Feb 2012

My conservative hubby -- bless his heart -- told me about this while he was trying to calm down some frothing conspiracy-nutter Ron Paul acolyte.

Reid v Covert, 1957, decided --

"...no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert

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