What table is it at which we have no seat because we have not ratified this treaty? What is it that we cannot do by having the most aggressive laws, the most robust laws protecting Americans with disabilities that we somehow achieve simply because we ratify this? If, in fact, that does nothing more than embrace that set of laws that we have actually passed, and if, in fact, as my friend says, this does nothing, then why do we ratify it?
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