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Message to the Senate -- Arms Trade Treaty
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, subject to certain declarations and understandings set forth in the enclosed report, I transmit herewith the Arms Trade Treaty, done at New York on April 2, 2013, and signed by the United States on September 25, 2013. I also transmit, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Secretary of State with respect to the Treaty, which contains a detailed article-by-article analysis of the Treaty.
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BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE, December 9, 2016. |
| Comment by:
dasing
(12/10/2016)
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| He signed it without congressional aproval, it is not law! |
| Comment by:
mzanghetti
(12/10/2016)
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| Hopefully the Senate will quickly send it back unratified! |
| Comment by:
laker1
(12/10/2016)
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| Only a few days left for BO to screw up America and he is fast at work evidently. |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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