U.S. can better ensure rights by refusing to sign U.N. treaty
About two weeks ago, the U.S . Senate failed to get a 2/3 majoity vote to pass the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a treaty that would have become the “supreme Law of the Land” based upon the Supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article VI).
The testimony from the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing is here: http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing_convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-treaty-doc-112-7.
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