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The World Trade Organization: No Threat to U.S. Sovereignty |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Joe Cobb |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,730 Words, 10,644 Characters |
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Is the World Trade Organization a threat to U.S. sovereignty? In general terms, we understand sovereignty to mean a nation's independence from other governments and its freedom to act. In history, there are many examples of sovereignty concentrated in a single ruler, such as the czar-autocrats of Russia, or Louis XIV of France, who declared, "I am the state." But states today have elaborate procedures that decentralize their sovereignty, for example, through periodic elections or independent courts. For a constitutional republic like the United States, sovereignty also includes an important central element contained in the U.S. Constitution: "We the people. . . "
We reject the idea that a king is sovereign, and we reject the idea that a few hundred congressmen in Washington are sover...
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...he United States," in M. Hilf, F.G. Jacobs, and E.U. Petersmann, The European Community and GATT, Kluwer, Deventer, the Netherlands, 1986.
John Jackson, "The Birth of the GATT-MTN System: A Constitutional Appraisal," Law and Policy in International Business, vol. 12, no. 21, 1983. Patrick Low, Trading Free: The GATT and U.S. Trade Policy, Twentieth Century Fund Press, New York, 1993.
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