This treaty MUST be approved by the Senate and unless it is it is not the law. Pretty simple concept. and you argued Obama did not need Congress for it.
After President Harry Truman bypassed Congress to go to war in Korea, presidents have paid almost no attention to the constitutional requirements. Declaring Less Than War In 1973, an irate Congress passed the War Powers Act in response to President Lyndon Johnson and President Richard Nixon's prosecution of the war in Vietnam without a congressional declaration. Under the War Powers Act, the president has 90 days after introducing troops into hostilities to obtain congressional approval of that action. It looks good on paper, but presidents have generally ignored the War Powers Act, citing Article II, Section 2 as their authority to send soldiers into combat.
Read the Constitution. The President can propose any treaty he wants. it does not become law until the Senate approves it. You can crow all you want about war that is not the issue. You claimed that Obama did not need Congress for the treaty about global warming, that is incorrect. His proposed treaty with China is only official IF the Senate concurs.
I have a copy of the constitution right next to my monitor and it's well used.
of course it's the issue.
but then again so is climate change..
Where is climate change written in the Constitution, or just SOMEONE INTERPRETATION of the Constitution?
please locknuts climate change among a million other things are not in the constitution because they did not exist then. that's why the founders made it open ended
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
Thomas Jefferson.