Periodically, the United States Government will publish a compendium of its “Treaties in Force”.
These are international treaties to which the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate, has agreed to subject the whole of the United States to.
These treaties supersede both Federal Law and State Law.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/TIF-2020-Full-website-view.pdf
Some significant ones listed:
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION - TAXATION - Tax reimbursement agreement, with annex. Signed at Washington September 17, 1997. Entered into force September 17, 1997. TIAS 12883
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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE UNIFICATION OF PRIVATE LAW - TAXATION - Tax reimbursement agreement, with annex. Signed at Rome September 17, 2013. Entered into force September 17, 2013. TIAS 13-917
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Geneva Convention on road traffic, with annexes and protocol. - Done at Geneva September 19, 1949. Entered into force March 26, 1952. 3 UST 3008; TIAS 2487; 125 UNTS 22 Depositary: United Nations
Please let me know significant ones to add to the list.
Which of these should we want revoked and why?
How would one go about working to revoke these, and what would the consequences be?
Was the ability to enter into treaties delegated from the President to the Secretary of State?
Thanks to u/bubble_bursts and u/AlgaeBanquet for reminding me about intending to make this thread.
More posted as I dig through the document myself.
All of them that are currently enacted and under an enforecement agreement of any sort need to be reviewed and ultimately done away with (hopefully). At a minimum they need to be rewritten. New, more modern treaties can be put in place that better reflect today's political, religious, and cultural environments. Every treaty we have with each individual nation needs to be put under the spotlight, extensively researched and reviewed, and readdressed as to whether or not they truly benefit us as a society, especially since we're used as the world's major arms supplier and policing force. It's high past the time this nation starts considering whether or not the UN, NATO, and other such organizations are truly worth our time, money, effort, and blood.
Most GWOT vets I know, and I know a lot across multiple commands and across all branches, including the USCG, happen to agree with me on this, too. When I say a lot, I mean I know hundreds loosely by name or reputation, and more personally know close to a hundred that I serv d with directly across multpile commands during two enlistments, as both an Aviation Ordanceman and then as an EOD Tech.
This is something that the military has long been discussing internally, but the upper echelon leadership won't openly admit, especially at the Major Command and Flag and General officer/Admiralty ranks because this discussion led to questionable deaths (Patton's and others), questionable loss of command authority, questionable "suicides," and questionable fo ced retirements (like McArthur's as well as others). I'm talking about internal discussions going back 30+ yrs, to at least Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and probably a lot earlier than that, since I remember having diacussiins like this with Vietnam era Vets and guys that were involved with Panama and Desert Shield/Desert Storm when I was a young, newly minted Sailor in 1995.
I can't tell you how many operations I was involved in that were under questionable treaty authority for the U.S. to be involved with because there's so many, they all kind of just roll up into each other.
I look at this list and see:
“Weren’t we warned about ‘foreign entanglements’?”