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Old 05-02-2008, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Seigi View Post
I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that if the government doesn't have the power to forbid something using a law then it should be unable to forbid it by signing a treaty. If the US government ratified a treaty that all press would be government censored, for example, it would be violating the First Amendment and thus invalid. It would be making a promise it didn't have the power to adhere to.
That is one take on it. But there are many laws that violate the constitution.
Anywho because we are signatory we are bound by it. That goes for the government and her citizens.
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