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In reply to the discussion: Obama lambasted opponents of free-trade agenda, arguing opponents are ignorant of the benefits [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
This "treaty" would, if what I have read is true and if I understand it correctly, remove that authority from future Congresses and hand it to an international body or court or simply freeze the terms agreed to in the TPP forever.
With each trade agreement, we relinquish a little more of our national identity, of our sovereignty, of our right of self-determination.
These treaties are an abomination. They are a worse threat to the existence of our nation than was Communism or fascism in my opinion. Sorry. President Obama but if our Congress does not have the authority to determine the time during which authors and inventors can enjoy the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries, then we don't even have the most basic rights of self-determination.
I am against the TPP
and proud to be against the TPP/
I am against all these trade agreements that bind us and deprive our Congress of the authority granted to it in the Constitution.
And above all, I oppose any treaties or agreements that would attempt to give to any international body or to Congress the authority to pass laws in violation of our Bill of Rights.