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To: kumar who wrote (61688)	12/15/2002 2:23:04 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Hi kumar_rangan; Re: "Slowly but surely learning, that this does not apply, when signing a piece of paper with the US government." It's not just the US. A substantial part of the world does not allow any single person to bind the nation to an agreement. That's what "ratification" is all about. Other countries that require ratification to be bound by treaties: Russia, Australia, Japan, and Canada all require ratification: spacedaily.com I would guess that if we were experts in the history of those countries, we'd be able to find examples where they signed an agreement and then failed to ratify it. It all comes down to one thing, can one man bind an entire nation to a treaty. In most modern nations, the answer is no. (This is the way it should be, I think.) -- Carl

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