Steven Groves: Copenhagen Treaty Seriously Compromises U.S. Sovereignty

During the last year, one of the bright spots of the conservative counter-revolution has been the “tea party movement.” At early tea parties, we photographed hundreds of signs declaring opposition to “taxation without representation.” The concern made sense. After all, unconstitutional delegation from the legislature to the administrative state accounts for many, many controversial policy decisions today. For instance, recently, the Environmental Protection Agency announced during the height of “climate-game” a determination that carbon should be treated as a dangerous pollutant because it contributes to global warming. Americans should have been able to call their representatives and tell them what they thought of that plan before a vote on the issue. The people at the EPA who made the ultimate call, however, aren’t elected and aren’t accountable to the taxpayer or constituents.

Given that our forefathers fought a war of independence in order to secure such sovereignty it is always surprising to see so few people uninterested in the modern trend towards abandoning the separation of powers and allowing unelected bureaucrats legislate instead of Congress. However, at least those unaccountable bureaucrats are our unaccountable bureaucrats. The loss of United States sovereignty under consideration at the Copenhagen Conference this week will mean that foreign powers and foreign unaccountable bureaucrats will be allowed to make crucial decisions about energy and economic policy in the United States. In a very real sense, the Left’s play is to surrender the political freedom of every American this week to the United Nations. It’s not a complete surrender, but the plan is to compromise the principle that a free America governs itself just a little in the name of “international climate justice.” It is our opinion that our representative self-government is essential to what it means to be the United States of America; this principle cannot be sacrificed a little without being lost completely.

Since we think that this area is so vitally important, we enthusiastically recommend Steven Groves work on the subject. Here’s a video of Steven introducing his recent research:

Here’s a thumbnail link to the short article or paper that Stephen refers to: