>I am also certain that I am not qualified too.
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>Anyways, I was not completely unfamiliar with this, barring the name, for several years ago (1994) there was reform of the Argentinean Constitution (which the original from 1853 was strongely influenced by the US Constitution) and in the new Constitution they worded it in an ambiguos way that it can be interpreted as if the international treaties were above the Constitution (and some people argued that they were), and my father (by that time a retired Justice) was furious and explained to me why they could not be above the Constitution (of course I did not understand the arguments then, so imagine now that my memory took a toll <g>). Anyways, what I meant is that to my knowledge, and even reading your links, it is clear to me that the treaties are still law, unless they are unconstitutional for the Constitution has supremacy over the treaties.

Even if the the charter with the U.N. or any treaties were found by the U.S. Supreme Court to supersede the U.S. Constitution, they would never be enforced without the backing of U.S. citizens. I am not explaining this very well, so I'll try to give a hypothetical example.

If a resolution were passed by the U.N. Security Council tomorrow saying that no country, including the U.S., could provide military support to Hezbollah or Israel, we would ignore it. Even if the case were taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in a unanimous decision they decided that the U.S. government had to abide by the resolution, we would still support Israel militarily. We would either outright ignore the Supreme Court decision, formally withdraw from the treaty, amend the Constitution, or provide some other means to effectively ignore the resolution.

I don't write that to make fun of the U.N. I just write that I believe that is what the political reality would be. I understand why a lot of the world is mad at our government since the invasion of Iraq. I agree with them. I am mad, too. However, I doubt that I will ever see a time in this country where the U.N. makes our decisions. I simply do not see that happening.