The colonists raised a charge against King George III based on sovereignty “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.”
- The interesting thing about a review of the above, is that in our time, there are those who have combined with others, attempting to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution. So…what are the ideas of the ‘global governance project’? It’s easy enough to find them on the websites of the UN, the European Union, the American Bar Association, the deans of most law schools and universities, most of the leading foundations. They aren’t talking about world governments…they are talking about global governance.
- Strobe Talbot, president of the Brookings Institution, has written that he welcomed ‘super-national political authority,’ saying "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
- Harold Koh, chief legal adviser of the State Department, and the legal authority of the government on foreign legal policy, states that the Supreme Court "must play a key role in coordinating U.S. domestic constitutional rules with rules of foreign and international law," The only way for the Supreme Court to do that "coordinating" is to subordinate the real American Constitution to ever-evolving rules of foreign and international law.
- Richard Haass, Republican, president of the Council on Foreign Relations “… states must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function…. sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalization.”
- To be clear this does not criticize treaties between nations…but there is something wrong with supernational or above-national bodies.
- Global governance movement claims precedence over a wide area of issues: budget practices, law enforcement, criminal law, criminal law, school curriculum, textbooks, immigration, border enforcement, healthcare, parental care, discipline of children, employment, multilingualism, gender composition of government bodies, among others. UN Human Rights treaties address all of the above.
- This movement is adversarial to American interests and values, and limited constitutional government. It claims that it is in our interest, so that when other nations are superior to ours, they will also behave globally. This is naïve at best. What is best for our interests is a military inferior to none, and the will to use it. It fails on the Utopian premise that other nations will behave as the progressives predict; they will simply say ‘that was then, this is now.”
- The most vital interest of the United States is the perpetuation of democratic self-government….hardly the subordination of our sovereignty.
- Beware of the supporters of this movement making us too weak to defend ourselves…..and seeing that as support for global governance.
- Europe has succumbed. 60-80 % of all laws in the EU are initiated by the unelected bureaucracy in Brussels, the European Commission…no longer by parliaments, the House of Commons, and other national legislative bodies. Beware.
“Independence forever!” is the toast that John Adams, the ‘Atlas of Independence,’ our second president, gave on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Coincidentally and maybe fittingly, that was also the day he died at the age of 91.
