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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: The JEWISH PRESS on the Genocide Treaty
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 15:42:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 15:42:26 1985
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Someone should stop the horror fairy tails.  No treaty signed be the
US, even if properly ratified, can supercede the US Constitution,
unless that treaty is accompanied by a Constitutional amendment.  A
treaty signed by the US has the force of law -- and like any law, if
it contradicts the Constitution, it is struck down upon challenge.  So
while a bad treaty could wreak all sorts of havoc with reasonable
foreign policy, IT CANNOT WREAK HAVOC ON US CITIZENS DOMESTICALLY.

Perhaps the treaty is dangerously flawed and a threat to international
justice (I don't know, I never read the thing), but it is dishonest to
try and whip up opposition by attempting to scare people with empty
threats of circumvention of due process and such things.  By all
means, opponents should lambast what dangers that may be, but ought
not raise fictional threats to use as whipping boys.

					David Rubin