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Old 06-21-2016, 11:36 AM   #30
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Default Re: Capebusters -- brainstorming a single-setting game

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Perhaps only 90% of the nation's of the world are signatories of the UN Ulysses declaration on the responsibilities of parahumans? Have background arguments about legality etc
Each country has its own means to ratify treaties, as well, and no nation will sign a treaty that overtly violates its own laws.

That means the U.S. government cannot sign a treaty that violates the U.S. Constitution's protections for due process; the U.S. Senate might not ratify it, if the executive branch negotiated such a treaty; and the U.S. Supreme Court would almost certainly declare it null and void.

(In Captain America: Civil War, the means by which the Sokovia Accords went active was pretty silly, and the Raft was wholly unconstitutional.)

Additionally, most nations will do nothing that would even hint at compromising their sovereignty, so I'd bet that the international "specialists" would be considered "consultants," working under the control and jurisdiction of whatever national law-enforcement agency is most appropriate, when operating in that country. In the U.S., the would be the FBI.
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