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Originally Posted by Manx
If the States decide that the U.S. should not be allowed to establish a national law, the States can prevent it.
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You are in disagreement with Article I, Section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution.
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To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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and the tenth amendment...
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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The federal government operates at a level above the states and first say regarding laws, then whatever the federal government does not make laws on is delegated to the states.
I will however cede the point of citizenship as amendment 14 clearly says that citizens are citizens of both the state they reside in as well as citizens of the United States. However there is still a fundimental difference between that and the UN. In the case of the US, I am a citizen of Arizona and of the US. But with the UN, I am a citizen of the US, but
not a citizen of the UN.
This sets the US as a sovereign entity made up of people who are citizens of the US. The UN however is not a sovereign entity and has no governance of those involved in the UN. Those involved in the UN are there on a strictly volunteer basis.