Kevin Drum on how movement conservatives have never liked treaties.
“I do not want a president of the U.S. to conclude an executive agreement which will make it unlawful for me to kill a cat in the back alley of my lot at night, and I do not want the President of the U.S. to make a treaty with India which would preclude me from butchering a cow in my own pasture.”
– Senator Walter George on the Bricker Amendment, 1954
“Unelected bureaucratic bodies would implement the treaty and pass so-called recommendations that would be forced upon the United Nations and the U.S….This would especially affect those parents who home-school their children….The unelected foreign bureaucrats, not parents, would decide what is in the best interests of the disabled child, even in the home.”
– Senator Jim Inhofe on the U.N. Treaty On Rights For The Disabled, 2012
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