On October 14, climate change expert Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, Minn. on the subject of global warming and the threat to U.S. sovereignty if the U.S. joins the treaty to be debated in Copenhagen this December.Lord Monckton is wrong, however, when he states that the U.S. Constitution says that a treaty takes precedence over the Constitution, that the president can make it U.S. law by signing it, and that nothing can be done to reverse it. The Constitution is an act by We the People. Treaties and federal statutes are the enactments of our representatives. The U.S. Supreme Court has acknowledged the supremacy of the Constitution over both:It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, as well as those who were responsible for the Bill of Rights -- let alone alien to our entire constitutional history and tradition -- to construe Article VI as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international...(Read Full Post)