Resolution Challenges Child Rights Convention

Resolution Challenges Child Rights Convention

Posted by Admin in News on 05 17th, 2010
Resolution Challenges Child Rights Convention
The time to act is NOW. Neither Judd Gregg nor Jeanne Shaheen has signed on to cosponsor this amendment to preserve your parental rights!

You can call Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R) D.C. Office: 202-224-3324
You can call Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D) D.C. Office: 202-224-2841

Please contact your Senators and tell them to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child because it interferes with families and violates the principle of American self-government. Whatever laws we need to protect children should be made by American legislators, not international committees. Please cosponsor Senate Resolution 519.
Background:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE // May 12, 2010 // Washington, D.C. – Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) today introduced S.R. 519, a resolution opposing ratification of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention, or CRC) in an effort to discourage the State Department and the Obama administration from submitting it to the Senate. Citing dangers posed to American families and to State and federal sovereignty if the treaty were ratified, the measure resolves that “the president should not submit it to the Senate for its advice and consent.”
In Washington’s current political climate, the resolution has little chance of gaining 51 votes for adoption, but its proponents say that is not the point. Since ratification of the Convention requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate, or 67 favorable votes, S.R. 519 needs only 34 cosponsors to prevent that vote and effectively end any chance of ratifying the treaty in the immediate future.
Opponents of the CRC warn that under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution the treaty’s ratification would render it “the Supreme law of the land,” superseding all state constitutions or laws as well as pre-existing federal law. The only legal authority higher than a ratified treaty is the actual text of the U.S. Constitution. According to Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), ratification of the Convention would “undermine the U.S. system of federalism, a system on which this nation was founded.” All family law, the vast majority of which is currently set at the state level, would be federalized as a treaty obligation of the national government.
“We want to see the CRC taken off the table for this Congress, and this resolution will do that. But I am also aware that the only permanent solution to this threat to our families is a parental rights amendment to the Constitution,” DeMint said, referring to another resolution he champions, S.J. Res. 16, which proposes just such an amendment.
Constitutional lawyer Michael Farris, president of ParentalRights.org, agrees. “The Amendment is what we really need, but this resolution is a good temporary fix in the meantime.”
Action Item
Within the next week, we will let you know when to start contacting Senators. This is a very dangerous treaty that if passed would take away parental rights in ways that would prevent you from bringing up and educating your children as you see fit.

http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2010/05/17/resolution-challenges-child-rights-convention/