http://Terry Austin/ ([identity profile] terry austin) wrote in [personal profile] seawasp 2014-02-24 04:45 pm (UTC)

Close, but not quite, at least in the US. Treaties are ratified by the Senate, while laws have to pass both houses of Congress.

And, according to the US constitution, a treaty is equal in authority to the constitution itself. A treaty cannot violate the constitution, but it can override federal law (though in real life, it's considerably more complicated than that, of course, with Congress passing enabling law to comply with the treaty).

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