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Title: Message to Copenhagen: Our Constitution Begins, 'We the People...'
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Humanevents.com
URL Source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34850
Published: Dec 16, 2009
Author: Newt Gingrich
Post Date: 2009-12-16 06:22:20 by borntoweardiamonds
Keywords: We the People, Constitution, Copenhagen
Views: 112
Tomorrow morning, the delegates at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will awaken to a very simple but powerful message: “In America, We Have a Constitution. It Begins: We the People…” These are the opening lines of a message to the American delegates in Copenhagen and the rest of the world sent on behalf of the American people by American Solutions. They are meant as a reminder to both Obama Administration officials and international climate activists that under our constitutional system, the American people, not government bureaucrats, are sovereign. Ronald Reagan was right when he said that America is a nation that has a government -- not the other way around. And if you have any doubt that the delegates at Copenhagen need to hear this message, take a look at this: This is a reference guide being handed out by one of the non-governmental organizations at Copenhagen to keep track of all the proposals to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. Its purposefully modeled after the Chinese mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book of Communism.” Can the profoundly undemocratic nature of this conference be any clearer? Congress Has the Power to Protect the Constitution. It Should Use It. American Solutions’ message to the Obama Administration and the Copenhagen delegates is this: President Obama cannot bind the American people to job killing international agreements on climate change without the advice and consent of the United States Senate. Similarly, he can’t bypass the peoples’ representatives in Congress by having the EPA pursue the same goals through bureaucratic totalitarianism. This message to the President is also a message to Congress. Should the Obama Administration act unilaterally and subvert the Constitution, the American people will rightfully rise up in opposition. Congress has the power to protect its constitutional role and protect the people’s voice in how we’re governed. It should use it. Substituting the Advice and Consent of the Senate with the Bureaucratic Power of the EPA When he travels to Copenhagen this week, President Obama is reportedly going to pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020. The Obama Administration’s various threats to act unilaterally -- both in Copenhagen and at home via the EPA -- to achieve this goal occur against the backdrop of this inescapable fact: The Senate, reflecting the will of the American people, refuses to pass the administration’s job killing cap and trade legislation. The result is that the administration is preparing to bypass the Senate with its announcement last week that the EPA will regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant. Knowing that it lacks the votes in the Senate to ratify any binding commitment made in Copenhagen to radically lower emissions, the administration may well attempt to use the EPA’s newly asserted power -- thus bypassing Senate ratification -- to implement the agreement. 
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