Therefore. since the international penal tribunal does not yet exist. and since no American citizen could ever come within its jurisdiction unless the Senate specifically ratified a new treaty providing for such jurisdiction. persons accused of genocide would be tried in the local courts of the nation where the crime allegedly occurred. Opponents of the convention also claim that matters of human rights are not the proper concern of treaties. Two human rights treaties which the Senate ratified most recently without a single dissenting votethe Supplementary Convention on Slavery. 1967. and the Supplementary Convention on Refugees. 1968--prove the historical inaccuracy of this charge. There is ample evidence that Senate ratification of treaties dealing with human rights is constitutionally valid. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C.
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