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[https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi Article Six] of the Constitution of the United States makes treaties part of the "supreme law of the land".
The Congress of the United States of AmericanAmerica, therefore, historically has been protective of the sovereign rights of the United States and reluctant to surrender them by treaty.
The United States Senate ratified the ICCPR in 1992, but it doing so, it took an extraordinary number of reservations, understandings, and declarations. With these reservations, the ICCPR does not provide a cause for action in United States courts.<ref>{{REFdocument