[aklug] Re: we're doomed

From: R Denison <gaijin@gci.net>
Date: Wed Apr 04 2012 - 15:19:48 AKDT

On 04/04/2012 02:07 PM, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> This has been going on since 2008.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
>
> It's been signed by 31 countries, but appearently does not go into effect
> until rattified by 6. At last report, none had yet rattified it.
>
> I'm not certain what the difference between signing and rattifiying it is,
> but I think it means that while the heads-of-state have signed it, the
> lawmaking bodies of the individual countries have not passed anything legal
> pertaining to it.

Ratification in the U.S. requires 2/3 approval in the Senate;
hypothetically, the President can sign what ever he pleases in treaty
negotiation, but it doesn't become binding upon the states until the
ratification process occurs.

R.
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