I don't think it's enforceable".
But it is not just what an agreement says, it is also whether it is enforceable.
An important element in the convention is the provision that judgments rendered under it are enforceable in all other contracting states.
"Our concern about the staffing language is that it not be meaningless language on a piece of paper and that it be enforceable," Ms. Schott said.
Law is not law unless it is enforceable, & the "law" of warfar are in their very nature unenvordeable, being a mere set of rules for quarrelling.
It is enforceable in France and Germany, where the pre-nup was signed, but not in England, where the couple were married in 1998.
Agenda 21 was rousingly condemned at the state Republican conference last month as "an encroachment on our sovereignty" (which it might be if it were enforceable, binding, or actually did anything).
"We don't support the idea of legalised trade at this time because we just don't think it is enforceable," says Dr Colman O'Criodain, a wildlife trade policy analyst with WWF.
"It's enforceable only if reasonable in scope and duration," said Alan Hyde, a professor at Rutgers Law School.
Still, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack "has asked the Office of General Counsel to review this provision to determine if it is enforceable," said Courtney Rowe, a USDA spokeswoman.
