Beretta92FSLady
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"But instead of advancing American primacy in this realm, the Obama administration has wrongly decided not only to follow a European Union draft “code of conduct” regulating outer space, but also to circumvent the Senate’s central constitutional role in making treaties.
The Obama administration recently declared that America would follow, though not sign, a European Union code of conduct for outer space — a transparent end run around the constitutional requirement that the Senate ratify all treaties. This code, drafted by Europeans who do not bear America’s global responsibilities, restricts military activities in space as well as some peaceful dual-use technologies, like the multistage rockets used to launch commercial satellites."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/09/opinion/hands-off-the-heavens.html
Is President Obama engaged in a not-Constitutional act? I say that he isn't because he is merely emulating European policy, not mandating.
Now something gets the little hamster in my head running on the rusty wheel: When does policy become a mandate?--five years; ten years; twenty years?
Can a policy circumvent the Constitution, even though it may not be Constitutional, simply by having the policy?--that is, until it sees the Bench!
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