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- From: myempire@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Matt J. Martin)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <ewright.726514832@convex.convex.com> <C0Js9I.87@zoo.toronto.edu> <ewright.726797449@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:58:12 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726797449@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <C0Js9I.87@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >
- >>Careful here... I don't know exactly what legal maneuvers took place
- >>when the US formally joined the UN, but if the UN Charter has the status
- >>of a Senate-ratified treaty, that means it has the force of law in the
- >>US... and one of the clauses in there is a renunciation of war as an
- >>instrument of national policy.
- >
- >Well, not really. The "supreme law of the land" is the US Constitution,
- >not international treaties -- no matter what the State Department might
- >tell you. It pretty specifically spells out warmaking powers in terms
- >that can't be ammended by a simple act of Congress.
- >
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- I beg to differ. Article 6 of the U.S. consitution states "...all Treaties
- made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall
- be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in eery State shall be bound
- thereby..."
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- The above includes anything George Bush signs.
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- >All of which is irrelevent because, as I said, George Bush de facto
- >surrendered US sovereignty in 1992.
- >
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- Sovereignty is an illusion to begin with. It doesn't exist.
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