Fast Track Trade Authority is not about any treaties. Treaties require a two thirds vote by the Senate to pass. FTTA reduces that to a majority vote without our Constitution being amended!
What we are talking about here is allowing the president to usurp Congress exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and precluding Congress from authoring regulations of commerce, debating them, and the people's representatives offering amendments to insure their constituents best interests are taken into account in addition to the general welfare of the United States being served. FTTA is an attack upon our representative system of government!
Fast Tract Trade Promotion Authority is intentionally designed to silence the various State’s interests and the People’s interests of each State from being expressed and acted upon when formulating regulations of commerce with foreign nations. It is designed to dissolve the very functions of Congress’ legislative powers, is an attack upon the people’s guarantee to a representative system of government, and would allow the president to usurp Congress’ exclusive legislative functions.
And what was our Founders thinking with regard to presidential powers? Their fear is expressed in Federalist No. 75 by Hamilton with regard to the President’s treaty making authority and sheds light on why the President was not granted an arbitrary power to make “CONTRACTS with foreign nations, which have the force of law.” Hamilton points out the president “might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.”
So, as it turns out, the founders intentionally commanded by our Constitution, that any deals cooked up by the president with a foreign power would not have “the force of law” unless approved by two thirds of the Senators present.
And what has our Senate just approved of when passing FTTPA? It has set our Constitution aside in many ways as outlined above, but it also allows the President to make secret deals with foreign nations which become effective based upon a mere majority vote, which flies in the face of the protection of needing a two thirds vote for approval. The bottom line is, this is a nefarious attack upon our Constitution by the Republican Party Leadership in the Senate and every Senator who voted in favor of this assault upon our Constitution needs to be punished ___ no punishment to be left off the table!
Republican Senators who voted to silence the people with Fast Track Trade Authority:
Alexander, Tenn.; Ayotte, N.H.; Barrasso, Wyo.; Blunt, Mo.; Boozman, Ark.; Burr, N.C.; Capito, W.V.; Cassidy, La.; Coats, Ind.; Cochran, Miss.; Corker, Tenn.; Cornyn, Texas; Cotton, Ark.; Crapo, Idaho; Cruz, Texas; Daines, Mont.; Ernst, Iowa; Fischer, Neb.; Flake, Ariz.; Gardner, Colo.; Graham, S.C.; Grassley, Iowa; Hatch, Utah; Heller, Nev.; Hoeven, N.D.; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Johnson, Wis.; Kirk, Ill.; Lankford, Okla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Moran, Kan.; Murkowski, Alaska; Perdue, Ga.; Portman, Ohio; Risch, Idaho; Roberts, Kan.; Rounds, S.D.; Rubio, Fla.; Sasse, Neb.; Scott, S.C.; Sullivan, Alaska; Thune, S.D.; Tillis, N.C.; Toomey, Pa.; Vitter, La.; Wicker, Miss.
We have been warned about the above mentioned tyrants:
"When a free people submit to oppressive acts, passed in violation of their constitution, for a single day, they have thrown down the palladium of their liberty. Submit to despotism for an hour and you concede the principle. John Adams said, in 1775, Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud. It is the only thing a people determined to be free can do. Republics have often failed, and have been succeeded by the most revolting despotisms; and always it was the voice of timidity, cowardice, or false leaders counseling submission, that led to the final downfall of freedom. It was the cowardice and treachery of the Senate of Rome that allowed the usurper to gain power, inch by inch, to overthrow the Republic. The history of the downfall of Republics is the same in all ages. The first inch that is yielded to despotism __ the first blow, dealt at the Constitution, that is not resisted is the beginning of the end of the nation’s ruin." ___ THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787
JWK
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation __ Declaration of Independence
What we are talking about here is allowing the president to usurp Congress exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and precluding Congress from authoring regulations of commerce, debating them, and the people's representatives offering amendments to insure their constituents best interests are taken into account in addition to the general welfare of the United States being served. FTTA is an attack upon our representative system of government!
Fast Tract Trade Promotion Authority is intentionally designed to silence the various State’s interests and the People’s interests of each State from being expressed and acted upon when formulating regulations of commerce with foreign nations. It is designed to dissolve the very functions of Congress’ legislative powers, is an attack upon the people’s guarantee to a representative system of government, and would allow the president to usurp Congress’ exclusive legislative functions.
And what was our Founders thinking with regard to presidential powers? Their fear is expressed in Federalist No. 75 by Hamilton with regard to the President’s treaty making authority and sheds light on why the President was not granted an arbitrary power to make “CONTRACTS with foreign nations, which have the force of law.” Hamilton points out the president “might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.”
So, as it turns out, the founders intentionally commanded by our Constitution, that any deals cooked up by the president with a foreign power would not have “the force of law” unless approved by two thirds of the Senators present.
And what has our Senate just approved of when passing FTTPA? It has set our Constitution aside in many ways as outlined above, but it also allows the President to make secret deals with foreign nations which become effective based upon a mere majority vote, which flies in the face of the protection of needing a two thirds vote for approval. The bottom line is, this is a nefarious attack upon our Constitution by the Republican Party Leadership in the Senate and every Senator who voted in favor of this assault upon our Constitution needs to be punished ___ no punishment to be left off the table!
Republican Senators who voted to silence the people with Fast Track Trade Authority:
Alexander, Tenn.; Ayotte, N.H.; Barrasso, Wyo.; Blunt, Mo.; Boozman, Ark.; Burr, N.C.; Capito, W.V.; Cassidy, La.; Coats, Ind.; Cochran, Miss.; Corker, Tenn.; Cornyn, Texas; Cotton, Ark.; Crapo, Idaho; Cruz, Texas; Daines, Mont.; Ernst, Iowa; Fischer, Neb.; Flake, Ariz.; Gardner, Colo.; Graham, S.C.; Grassley, Iowa; Hatch, Utah; Heller, Nev.; Hoeven, N.D.; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Johnson, Wis.; Kirk, Ill.; Lankford, Okla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Moran, Kan.; Murkowski, Alaska; Perdue, Ga.; Portman, Ohio; Risch, Idaho; Roberts, Kan.; Rounds, S.D.; Rubio, Fla.; Sasse, Neb.; Scott, S.C.; Sullivan, Alaska; Thune, S.D.; Tillis, N.C.; Toomey, Pa.; Vitter, La.; Wicker, Miss.
We have been warned about the above mentioned tyrants:
"When a free people submit to oppressive acts, passed in violation of their constitution, for a single day, they have thrown down the palladium of their liberty. Submit to despotism for an hour and you concede the principle. John Adams said, in 1775, Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud. It is the only thing a people determined to be free can do. Republics have often failed, and have been succeeded by the most revolting despotisms; and always it was the voice of timidity, cowardice, or false leaders counseling submission, that led to the final downfall of freedom. It was the cowardice and treachery of the Senate of Rome that allowed the usurper to gain power, inch by inch, to overthrow the Republic. The history of the downfall of Republics is the same in all ages. The first inch that is yielded to despotism __ the first blow, dealt at the Constitution, that is not resisted is the beginning of the end of the nation’s ruin." ___ THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787
JWK
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation __ Declaration of Independence
