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Secretary Rubio has called for the expulsion of the International Criminal Court from New York, identifying the body as an instrument in a calculated effort to erode the sovereignty of the United States and every historic nation.
The Court operates without the consent of the American people yet claims jurisdiction over their elected leaders, their soldiers, and their laws. Its prosecutors pursue cases that bypass treaty ratification and constitutional process, substituting the judgments of distant functionaries for the decisions of the people and their representatives.
This maneuver belongs to the same lineage that produced the managerial structures of the twentieth century, structures designed to transfer authority from households, parliaments, and crowns to supranational commissions and tribunals.
The governing principle remains unchanged since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648: legitimate authority resides in concrete, covenanted peoples who answer to God for the defense of their own borders, their own laws, and their own posterity.
Scripture records that God ordained nations with their own habitations and times, not a single administrative order administered by unaccountable magistrates. The creeds affirm one holy catholic Church, not one holy administrative state.
When a tribunal claims power to indict the leaders of sovereign states while shielding its own patrons, it reveals itself as an agent of the earthly city that seeks to level every throne and altar beneath its own.
The faithful remnant must therefore treat the International Criminal Court as the hostile actor it is and support every measure that restores the legal supremacy of the American Constitution over foreign claims.
Secretary Rubio has named the threat. The task now falls to Congress and the several states to enact the ban and to refuse any further accommodation to an institution that exists to supplant them.
