ITSSD: 'Putting Country First' Means Defending America's Sovereignty, Constitution...

ITSSD: 'Putting Country First' Means Defending America's Sovereignty,
Constitution and Free Enterprise System Against Foreign Incursion

Law Review Article Reveals Mostly Blue Party Efforts to Help Foreigners
'Change' America's Regulatory Landscape at State and Local Levels

PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a new Temple Political
& Civil Rights Law Review article entitled, The Extra-WTO Precautionary
Principle: One European 'Fashion' Export the United States Can Do Without,
international trade and regulatory lawyer Lawrence Kogan documents how
America's Blue Party is quietly assisting our transatlantic cousins to reform
the common law foundations of America's unique constitutional and free
enterprise systems in Europe's continental civil law image.

"The unfortunate reality is that green-socialist Europe is increasingly
governing the American way of life, that is, re-colonizing America through
'soft (law) power', unless our political leaders 'put country first' and act
aggressively to reverse this trend", emphasizes Kogan. "Protectionist Europe
has long sought to undermine U.S. product design, process and manufacturing
methods by imposing on American global supply-chains and small businesses its
costly, non-science-based and WTO-inconsistent environmental requirements
which are also promoted globally by the politically unaccountable institutions
of the United Nations."

According to Kogan, "European governments and like-minded U.S. politicians
have strongly criticized America for refusing to ratify European-crafted UN
environmental treaties, and now call for fundamental domestic 'change' to
rehabilitate America's image abroad." To facilitate this transformation,
"Mostly Blue Party legislators and executives have opened up the doors of U.S.
statehouses and regulatory agencies to Europe's collectivist, communitarian
model of rulemaking, thereby placing America's individual rights-based
federalist system and Americans' constitutionally guaranteed exclusive private
property rights at considerable risk." "Furthermore", notes Kogan, "This
sovereign incursion threatens to tilt the ongoing global competition between
Anglo-American (negative-rights-based) and Continental
(social-redistributionist) capitalism" in Europe's favor.

This raises many questions to which the American electorate deserves clear and
unambiguous answers. For example, "Will our current and future leaders defend,
at the federal, state and local levels, America's founding principles which
have enabled the U.S. throughout its history to remain a nation without peers?
Or, will they simply decide, on political correctness grounds, to broad-brush
these traditions away for the sake of 'global solidarity'?"

The Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD) is a
non-partisan non-profit international legal research and educational
organization that examines international law relating to trade, industry and
positive sustainable development around the world. This ITSSD study is
accessible online at:http://www.itssd.org/Kogan%2017[1].2.pdf .

CONTACT: ITSSD, +1-609-951-2222, info@itssd.org

SOURCE Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development

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