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How will the American and Asian countries that have largely ignored ratification respond?
Still mindful of Congress’ critical role in war-making, Jefferson asked for and received ratification when legislators returned.
NGO's played key roles in the disruption of the World Trade Organization summit in 1999, the passage of the Landmines Treaty, and the ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in May 2003.
When the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, Clinton did not even send it to the US Senate for ratification, knowing that it would be rejected.
At the top of the agenda should be ratification of improvements to a crucial nuclear security instrument – theConvention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
Nonetheless, Trump has vowed to scrap the deal, with his advisers citing the same arguments that emerged during the ratification process.
These include the generalization of majority voting, enlargement of the European Parliament's role, the notion of public proceedings for the Council of Ministers (making it almost like a senate), the introduction of the possibility of withdrawal from the Union, and even the possibility of treaty ratification by majority.
The French Socialists’ New European IdentityThe French Socialist Party may well have just saved ratification of the European Union’s draft Constitutional Treaty by France in next summer’s referendum.
With the popularity of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin – and French rightist forces more broadly – in steep decline, a “no” vote could have tipped the public against ratification.
Labelled by the US as part of the “axis of evil,” Syria has also seen Saudi financial aid dry up and fears that the trade benefits that would come with ratification of its Association Agreement with the EU will never materialize.
In the national ratification referendum that followed, citizens were allowed to vote against the military-sponsored draft, but not to argue against it publicly.
We need final and complete ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in order to have the institutionally and internationally stronger European Union we need.
The Lisbon Treaty offers a fundamental redesign of how the Union works, but, despite the pressing need to enhance EU institutions’ mobility and flexibility, it is still awaiting ratification.
More to the point, the Paris agreement is a treaty, and therefore should have gone to the US Senate for ratification, which would have required a two-thirds supermajority.
In fact, other governments that joined the accord are now submitting it to their respective legislatures for ratification as a treaty.
Trump could have adjusted the US’s “nationally determined” emissions targets and financial commitments, possibly even increasing the Paris deal’s chances for Senate ratification.
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty allows for an element of visionary realism in European politics, as there are no longer any institutional obstacles to the future enlargement of the EU.
President Barack Obama’s support for US ratification of the CTBT is welcome — the treaty only needs a few more ratifications to enter into force.
Even in the best case, however, the changing of the guard will delay any final agreement and ratification by the three countries.
Potentially, there are three bodies of law that could govern the treatment of these prisoners:domestic American law in accordance with the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution;international human rights law to which the US is a party through its membership in the UN and its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;international humanitarian law--also known as the laws of war--to which the US is also a party through its ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and through its acceptance that certain provisions of the First Additional Protocol of 1977 have the status of customary international law that is binding on America as on all other governments.
And now, with a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Obama might not be able to fulfill major foreign-policy promises, including ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a key item in the president’s vision for reinvigorating the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Indeed, the Europeans need the equivalent of the US Constitutional Convention – and the difficult ratification debate that followed.
In addition, his administration pledges not to resume testing nuclear weapons by detonating them, and to seek to bring the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force by securing its ratification by the US Senate and all other countries.
And now critics of the TPP’s ratification, particularly in the United States, should read the agreement with an open mind.
The agreement gives pharmaceutical firms, tobacco companies, and other corporations substantially less than they had asked for – so much so that US Senator Orrin Hatch and some other Republicans now threaten to oppose ratification.
Republican intransigence has precluded US ratification of the CTBT, which would be a big international circuit-breaker; almost killed the New START treaty at birth; and has caused the bar for further negotiations with Russia and China to be set almost impossibly high.
The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades, the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and now faces an uphill battle for ratification, as all the leading Democratic presidential candidates and many of the Republicans have weighed in against it.
Indeed, in June 2009, Germany’s Constitutional Court strengthened its political role by demanding that ratification of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty be accompanied by a law warranting powers of co-decision to the German Parliament.
At the EU-China Summit, we discussed the Chinese government’s plans for ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In 1947, however, following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election to four terms in office, Congress enacted the Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution; since its ratification in 1951, US presidents have been limited to two four-year terms.
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