Some time ago, Pres. Obama made a remark regarding his frustration with the way Constitutional constraints hampered his efforts to reshape America according to his own ideals:
"It turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes. But what I have been able to do is move in the right direction..."
And, for once, he nails it.
It cannot be expressed any better than the following words penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolutions:
"...in questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution…"
Mr. President, when the direction you desire to go conflicts with, or diverges from, the directions established in our Constitution, you are going in the WRONG direction. End of story.
It is past time to re-bind our government with the chains of the Constitution that were intended to safeguard the enumerated rights of the States, and more importantly, the People.
The news headlines are telling us that President Obama will sign the UN ATT during the legislative break.
There is just one minor problem: the Senate has already disapproved the signing of this treaty.
The US Senate web site provides the following details regarding the ratification of treaties:
"The Senate does not ratify treaties—the Senate approves or rejects a resolution of ratification. If the resolution passes, then ratification takes place when the instruments of ratification are formally exchanged between the United States and the foreign power(s)," (US Senate and Treaties).
On March, 23, 2013, the same week the UN ATT was passed by the UN Security Council, the US Senate, in an early morning vote, voted 53-46 to reject a resolution to ratify the treaty. The Senate has already expressed its will concerning this treaty; the president has no legal grounds to sign the UN ATT. Once again, however, the president is going to unilaterally act in violation of our system of checks and balances.
One more impeachable offense on the part of the president.
