50 Senators Warn Obama: We Will Not Ratify UN Arms Treaty

It could be hard for Obama to ignore the Constitution and to bypass Congress on his Constitutional duty again.

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Bruce

"Fifty senators are standing together to protect the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
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Regardless of presidential fervor for the disarmament of law-abiding Americans or the number of votes he and his backers can buy in the Senate, no treaty that violates the Constitution could ever become the law of the land.
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To put a finer point on it, Article VI of the Constitution says:

This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and 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 every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
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In light of this duplicity on the part of the Supreme Court and that body’s habit of usurping legislative authority, when it comes to preserving the right to keep and bear arms, letters from the Senate will not be enough to protect this most precious right. In this matter as in so many others, the states and the people will be required to uphold the liberties protected by our Constitution in the face of federal collusion with the international forces of civilian disarmament."