Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
Does America need the permission of the United Nations before it
declares war? Must the United States adopt the Kyoto Treaty on
greenhouse gases? Should the United States Supreme Court look to
the legal precedents of other countries when it applies the
Constitution? These are just some of the sovereignty questions that
have become political battlegrounds in recent years. Hovering over
all of them is one central question: Do the citizens of liberal
democracies retain the unique right to determine their own laws and
public policies or must they yield to the dictates of unelected
transnational bureaucracies for the sake of the "greater
good"?
The great promise of transnationalism is that all cultural
distinctions will be leveled by the bureaucracies and rules of the
elite. There would be no basis for any future conflict because
conformity to a single set of ideas would be imposed. This would be
a future of eternal peace, of perfect security - at only the cost
of human freedom and the ability to hold governing entities
responsible or accountable. Join us as our panelists examine these
issues and provide a framework for understanding one of the most
vital controversies of the day.
More About the Speakers
Paul Driessen
Senior Fellow,
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Ramesh Ponnuru
Senior Fellow,
National Review
Jeremy Rabkin
Associate Professor of Government,
Cornell University
Moderator:
Orrin C. Judd
Editor,
Redefining Sovereignty
Hosted By
Becky Norton Dunlop
Vice President, External Relations
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