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GROWING PERIL TO U.S. SOVEREIGNTY
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
February 26, 1999
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The sovereignty issue is roaring back. This time, our elites may not write it
off as the concern only of folks on the look-out for black helicopters, or
sitting on rural hillsides soaking up the thunderous oratory at God-and-
Country rallies. For even centrist scholars are now breaking the glass on the
fire alarms. . .
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Up at the United Nations, the carpenters of the New World Order are busy
constructing the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. Modeled on the
Nuremberg court that convicted the Nazis, the new tribunal claims jurisdiction
over all nations, including the United States.
Last July, America rejected the court, fearing U.S. soldiers could be
prosecuted. Yet, American diplomats are beavering away alongside U.N.
bureaucrats who envision the tribunal as a world court that shall sit above
the claims of any and all nation-states.
The sovereignty issue is roaring back. This time, our elites may not write it
off as the concern only of folks on the look-out for black helicopters, or
sitting on rural hillsides soaking up the thunderous oratory at God-and-
Country rallies. For even centrist scholars are now breaking the glass on the
fire alarms.
"Why Sovereignty Matters" is the title of a paper written for the American
Enterprise Institute by Jeremy Rabkin, a professor of government at Cornell,
who sees global agreements as a growing and direct threat to American
sovereignty.
"(W)hat makes a state sovereign," Rabkin writes, "is that it need answer to no
outside authority." For us, "sovereignty means the primacy of our own
Constitution. The people of the United States, by their own sovereign
authority, have made the Constitution supreme over the government, and no
outside agreement can challenge that supremacy."
Yet, both NAFTA and Al Gore's Kyoto treaty on global warming supersede our
Constitution and imperil that sovereignty, putting America on the same fatal
path being trod by Europe.
Writes Rabkin: "(T)he Common Market ... has expanded in size and ambition to
emerge as something like a federal superstate. ... The European Union has
undertaken ... to remove tariff barriers ... to standardize products and
services, to ensure common protections for labor and the environment, and to
reallocate wealth from richer to poorer regions. In total, such 'integration'
is far more ambitious than the aggregate of policies undertaken by the federal
government in the United States. ... (T)he European Court of Justice claims
and exercises the authority to invalidate statutory enactments of parliaments
...
"No one seriously pretends," he adds, "that the member states of the EU are
still sovereign in the way they once were."
With Tony Blair's Britain, Europe last great holdout, preparing to surrender
its currency and control of monetary policy to the new European central bank,
the day of the nation-state in Europe is over.
Now, the United States, too, "has begun to participate in environmental
agreements, human rights agreements, trade agreements, and agreements in other
areas that do raise inescapable questions about American sovereignty."
Under NAFTA, private companies can appeal U.S. import duties to panels
dominated by Canadians and Mexicans, whose rulings are binding on U.S. courts.
Globalists have discovered the loophole in the Constitution, Article 6, which
puts foreign treaties on the same plane, and are driving their one-world
agenda right through it.
The Kyoto Protocol, Rabkin writes, "assumes that actions of motorists in
Kansas or homeowners in Minnesota can be related to 'international' concerns.
... In ratifying that treaty, the Senate would seem to be ratifying in advance
a whole series of future policies that may never return to the Senate for its
consent."
If Americans are not to lose their constitutional rights and the United
States. its sovereignty to "global governance," there is a need for the
eternal vigilance that is the price of liberty, and more than that.
"Congress must come to grips with the threatened erosion of U.S. sovereignty
in the very near future," writes Rabkin. We need both "new protective
legislation against international bureaucratic mandates," and "a formal
amendment to the Constitution to clarify and reinforce traditional
limitations."
America needs an amendment that declares that no treaty we enter into is above
the Constitution, and that above the sovereignty of the nation stands the
sovereignty of God alone. Here is an issue to rally Republicans, conservatives
and populists, leaving out only those whose hidden agenda is Strobe Talbott's
World Government.
Jefferson wrote: "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written
Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. I say the same
as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power
as boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution."
Independence forever! Now, there's a cause.
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