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JDPriestly

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3. These courts should not be agreed to by our Congress.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 03:43 AM
Mar 2015

The US Constitution provides for the resolution of disputes between foreign nationals or corporations and the US.

Article III

Section 2.

The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii

We do not need these trade courts. We should not sign agreements that provide for these courts. This may be hard to understand, but it is essential that commercial disputes be resolved in courts that are set up by the people of the country, and I would like to see the trials take place in the country of the defendant nation.

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no idea samsingh Mar 2015 #1
Milton Friedman Shock Doctrine SamKnause Mar 2015 #2
And yet, OrwellwasRight Mar 2015 #5
He is pushing hard for the TPP. SamKnause Mar 2015 #6
These courts should not be agreed to by our Congress. JDPriestly Mar 2015 #3
Woot woot! OrwellwasRight Mar 2015 #4
By far, the most important issue of the present time. appal_jack Mar 2015 #7
You said it. OrwellwasRight Mar 2015 #8
We will prevail. nt appal_jack Mar 2015 #9
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