Professor Jeremy Rabkin, in a paper written for the First Principles on Human Rights project, argues for an unapologetic defense of U.S. sovereignty and America’s process for treaty ratification.

The principal international human rights documents clearly protect the ... It should be noted that although the Standard Minimum Rules are not a treaty, they constitute an authoritative guide ...

whether in the forms of treaties, customary international law, general principles, regional agreements and domestic law, through which human rights are expressed and guaranteed. Indeed ...

The treaty views disability as a result of ... clarifies the content of human rights principles and their application to the situation of persons with disabilities; provides an authoritative ...