UN attempted end run around US Constitution

In mid-2012, the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sus... (WCJGLES) was held in Brazil. The goal of the congress was to

"contribute to the support of Chief Justices, Attorneys General, Auditors Generals and other legal experts to the achievement of sustainable development and to provide inputs to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio +20."

As with almost all United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) sponsored activities, WCJGLES focused on the development and implementation of radical policies and laws. The most threatening component of the UNEP-based sustainable development movement is that it often seeks to alter and/or supercede the constitutions of free and democratic sovereign nations by instituting environmental rights which generally reduce the basic human rights of affected citizens. In other words, free and democratic countries get pushed towards authoritarian states. This type of pressure for alterations (either via explicit amendments and/or judicial activism) to the US Constitution within the liberal legal establishment is best exemplified by the following statements from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in January 2012:

"I would not look to the US Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012 ... I might look at the constitution of South Africa. ... It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the U.S. Constitution: Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights. Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world."

Thus, we enter the age of constitutional globalization, driven in large part by multi-national organizations (most notably: the UN and its supporters), and with much of the intellectual groundwork conducted at international meetings like WCJGLES.

For those that didn't attend, WCJGLES made a summary of its congress available. Many of the statements are stunning. Apparently,

"Shiranee Tilakawardena, Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, highlighted the need for a change of attitude of judges to become 'activist judges,' saying courts have the capacity to change and be the drivers of change."

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