Petition to Repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
NAFTA?s approval and subsequent enforcement have been conducted in violation of the U.S. Constitution and it should be declared null and void and repealed.
The North American Free Trade Agreement?s approval and subsequent enforcement have been conducted in violation of the U.S. Constitution and it should be declared null and void and repealed.
NAFTA has provided foreign companies that have business operations in the United States with exemptions from cost-inducing federal, state and local taxes and regulations that all U.S.-based businesses must pay. This inequity has provided those foreign-based firms with an unfair competitive advantage. These exemptions, in effect, deny U.S. citizens the guarantee of equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, resulting in great financial and employment injury without the benefit of due process and just compensation provided under the 5th Amendment.
By granting immunity from U.S. taxes without the benefit of equalizing taxes, NAFTA violates the spirit and letter of the ?uniform? clause of Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that federal taxes be uniform throughout the United States.
NAFTA takes away the power of our U.S. courts by allowing disputes involving U.S. citizens and businesses to be decided in secret by panels comprised of members from foreign nations, without allowing further redress in U.S. courts. NAFTA thereby illegally blocks the power of U.S. courts to hear and rule on cases in law and equity arising under Article 3, Section 2 of our Constitution, which requires our federal courts to have judicial authority on all U.S. treaties with other countries.
NAFTA, through its callous inequities, has caused millions of American citizens grievous harm through the loss of a job or substantially degraded earnings ability.
The NAFTA approval process violated Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 3, of the U.S. Constitution by providing the Executive Branch with ?fast track? authority to negotiate NAFTA without input and revision by Congress and without duly amending the Constitution in accordance with Article 5 of our Constitution, which requires that any amendments be approved by three-quarters of all states.
Therefore NAFTA, due to these numerous violations of our U.S. Constitution, is a bogus document that should be declared null and void, renounced and repealed.
NAFTA has provided foreign companies that have business operations in the United States with exemptions from cost-inducing federal, state and local taxes and regulations that all U.S.-based businesses must pay. This inequity has provided those foreign-based firms with an unfair competitive advantage. These exemptions, in effect, deny U.S. citizens the guarantee of equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, resulting in great financial and employment injury without the benefit of due process and just compensation provided under the 5th Amendment.
By granting immunity from U.S. taxes without the benefit of equalizing taxes, NAFTA violates the spirit and letter of the ?uniform? clause of Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that federal taxes be uniform throughout the United States.
NAFTA takes away the power of our U.S. courts by allowing disputes involving U.S. citizens and businesses to be decided in secret by panels comprised of members from foreign nations, without allowing further redress in U.S. courts. NAFTA thereby illegally blocks the power of U.S. courts to hear and rule on cases in law and equity arising under Article 3, Section 2 of our Constitution, which requires our federal courts to have judicial authority on all U.S. treaties with other countries.
NAFTA, through its callous inequities, has caused millions of American citizens grievous harm through the loss of a job or substantially degraded earnings ability.
The NAFTA approval process violated Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 3, of the U.S. Constitution by providing the Executive Branch with ?fast track? authority to negotiate NAFTA without input and revision by Congress and without duly amending the Constitution in accordance with Article 5 of our Constitution, which requires that any amendments be approved by three-quarters of all states.
Therefore NAFTA, due to these numerous violations of our U.S. Constitution, is a bogus document that should be declared null and void, renounced and repealed.
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