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TheUrbanMyth
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| [Shouldn't successive governments in a country be able to exit treaties signed by previous governments? I don't see any rational in a population being bounded to a document signed by a simple majority of one session of their legislative branch decades before. |
The problem with that is that certain specific treaties affect the foreign policies of other governments with whom the said government signed. There are two or (sometimes more parties to a treaty). If one country unilaterally withdraws from the treaty...shouldn't the other countries be able to punish it? |
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comm
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| The problem with that is that certain specific treaties affect the foreign policies of other governments with whom the said government signed. There are two or (sometimes more parties to a treaty). If one country unilaterally withdraws from the treaty...shouldn't the other countries be able to punish it? |
That's not an easy question to answer, really. I shouldn't be permanently held hostage by the poor decisions of previous generations, there should be a legal framework for extrication from any government decision. I suppose that listing "withdrawal consequences" in a treaty is the best solution, but still not a great one. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| comm wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| The problem with that is that certain specific treaties affect the foreign policies of other governments with whom the said government signed. There are two or (sometimes more parties to a treaty). If one country unilaterally withdraws from the treaty...shouldn't the other countries be able to punish it? |
That's not an easy question to answer, really. I shouldn't be permanently held hostage by the poor decisions of previous generations, there should be a legal framework for extrication from any government decision. I suppose that listing "withdrawal consequences" in a treaty is the best solution, but still not a great one. |
How is this any different than any other law? Or the constitution, or legal precedent? If everything changed with each new administration there would be a breakdown in society. If that happened in the international system, than treaties and international agreements would be worthless and the international system would be even more anarchistic than it already is. |
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