Why should international treaties be given precedence over our Bill of Rights?

Question

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Answer 1

They are not. Parts of the constitution is trumped by international treaties, but the bill of rights is not.

Answer 2

Domestically, they cannot.

Answer 3

because it was agreed to. i would like to know more specifics,but i won't go to tripod

Answer 4

Because there are people within the US who feel it is important to be adulated by the international community.  These people would sell your family into economic and political slavery to appease their “friends” around the world.  I would suggest we should be somewhat more isolationist than we are now but still contend for what we believe to be right.  I think Teddy Roosevelt was pretty close to the best at that in recent history.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. -Michel de Montaigne

Answer 5

Ratified treaties are the law.  The senate ratifies them so in that respect they are no different from any other law passed by congress.  I suppose it it possible for a treaty to be ruled unconstitutional and the ratification nullified but I would think the constitutionality would be researched before the vote was taken.

Answer 6

That is just the point!  It is against all US law to do so!  The Senate can ratify treaties all they want but, when the provisions of those treaties go against US law, the Bill of Rights or the US Constitution, we are unbeholden to the treaties!  It is the same wrong thinking as the SCOTUS using international court decisions for their decisions concerning constitutional issues!

Answer 7

They shouldn't, they is why the US needs to kick the UN off our soil and get back to running things the old fashion way.