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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Not that I'm on the bandwagon with any of this talk about the NAU, but let's also consider how easily the Americans have ammended certain parts of the US Constitution with little to no resistance. The bill goes through Congress, gets the stamp of approval. I mean, they just passed a bill that lets Canadian/American troops to cross the border uncontested and operate in each others countries. Things like these, and certain "Free Speech Zones," or the Patriot Act might be viewed as groundwork for the NAU to some people. Myself not necessarily included, but nevertheless.
Furthermore, I've also heard that the Constitution will no longer start with "We the People..." but instead "We the Government..."
Again this is just what I've heard. On the internet, no less. Where everything is real.
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A proposed Constitution amendment requires 2/3rd approval of both houses of Congress and hasnt been done since 1992 (27th Amend.). So really, the Americans havent simple amended certain parts of their constitution recently and Congress has not just rubber stamped it. Considering there has been 27 amendments to date, I doubt Congress would just rubber stamp another one - it would be HUGE news, and in todays political climate, highly contested.
Changing the start of the Constitution from "We the people..." to "We the government..." is so laughable it's not worth discussing. That would cut to the very core of American values and the US's view on their society. Remember what the US was founded on. Are you sure the internet source wasnt a parody or "theOnion.com"?
Finally, HHH has mentioned either in his words, but more commonly via news clippings or youtube compilations that Canada, the US and Mexico are putting together a North American Court that would supersede the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) as well as the Canadian SC and Mexican... whatever they have. This is simply BS... The SCOTUS has stated that nothing done by treaty (which is what this is) that could not be done by statute, and also strikes down both treaties and statues that violate Article III of the US Constitution. Article III states, specifically, that all judicial power is vested in SCOTUS and anything that attempts to override that vested power would be declared per se invalid.
Conspiracy theorists and university students inspired by their paranoid professors are the only two that think this thing has legit legs. I suspect there is an effort to increase trade relations between CA-US-MEX to compete on a world scale, but the sky-is-falling types are taking this to mean the end of everything as we know it in North America.