For LIBR1101-05 at UWG.

1. THE UNITED NATIONS & THE
EFFECTS IT HAS ON THE U.S.
By Sharifah Christie, Kadarius Macon, and
Collin Pereira

2. SHARIFAH CHRISTIE
Research Question
-How would the United Nation
Arms Treaty change the
constitutional rights of Americans?"
Why I Chose That Question
-Since our group topic had to do
with the U.N. in relations to the
United States, a question involving
the Arms Treaty was a perfect
example of something from the
U.N. that can affect the U.S.

3. MY ARGUMENT
-The United Nations Arms Treaty would
affect the Constitutional Rights of
America by changing the second
amendment, which is the right to bear
arms.

5. MY RESEARCH & EVALUATION
• The book called The Constitution, helped me during research because it had
the entire Constitution including the second amendment in a detailed manner
to support how the Arms Treaty would affect our constitutional rights.
• The article called "U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Will Harm Us, Let Others Go
Free,” was useful for my research because it describes how the Arms Treaty
will affect Americans' freedom if it is passed.
• The website http://blog.chron.com/bakerblog/2012/08/u-n-arms-trade-
treaty-a-threat-to-the-2nd-amendment/ helped me during research because
it informed me about the Arms Treaty related to the second amendment.
• I decided that all three sources mentioned were relevant and credible,
because the book was a professional and reliable government book, the
article was a trustworthy, peer-reviewed, scholarly article, and the website had
the correct information I needed to see how the second amendment would
be affected by the Arms Treaty.

7.  Can the United Nations  Why this research
legally supersede the question?
sovereignty of the United  The United Nations was
States through the use of created and accepted by
international treaties? each individual nation
that participates in it
activities.
 Does this mean that
nations are directed by
the U.N?

8.  The United States has  According to U.S.
the ability to decide what constitutional law no
treaties it adheres to. legislation can be passed
without going through
both the Senate and
House of representatives.
It must then be approved
by the president.

9.  Book source:  Provided information
 Russell, Ruth B. A about the United
History of the United Nations creation and the
Nations Charter: The impact it has on
Role of the United States, countries.
1940-45. Washington:  Explained that the
Brookings Institution, United Nations is based
1958. Print. on participation. A
country chooses to
participate in the U.N.
and it’s actions.

10.  Scholarly article:  Provided history and
 Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem. information about the
Managing World Order : agenda of the U.N. and
United Nations Peace its goals.
Operations And The  Presented the idea that
Security Agenda. n.p.: the U.N. wishes to
I.B. Tauris, 2009. eBook demilitarize the world in
Collection (EBSCOhost). an attempt at peace but
Web. 6 Oct. 2012. history shows that a
demilitarized society is
one that is easily
attacked and conquered.

11.  Online (website) source:  Provides information about
the agenda of the United
 Inhofe, James. DeMint,
Nations and Ideas
supported by our current
Jim. "Inhofe and DeMint: president and his
U.N. Treaties mean LOST administration.
U.S. Sovereignty".
07/25/2012. The  Presents the idea that
Washington Times, LLC. President Obama and his
10/03/2012. Website. administration intend to
<http://www.washingtonti slowly degrade our second
mes.com/news/2012/jul/25 amendment rights, the
/un-treaties-would- rights which give us the
separate-americans-from- ability to protect all our
the-cons/?page=all> other rights.

12.  Brown, Dudley. “United
Nations Gun Grabbers
Choose The 4th of July to
Begin Final Assault”.
www.ammoland.com
07/06/2012. Website.
11/05/2012
<http://www.ammoland.c
om/2012/07/06/un-gun-
grabbers-choose-4th-of-
july-to-begin-final-
assault/#axzz2BNEeys9H>

13.  The book resources I  My website resource was
selected were written by also written by experts in
experts in their their respective field
respective fields with the with the intention of
intention of scholarly informative use.
and informative uses.
 My article resources were
written as historical and
informative pieces by
experts in their
respective field and by
U.S. Senators.

14.  How does the treaty  I decided to go with this
affect rights of question because
Americans, and will the Americans safety can be
treaty change the safety in jeopardy if the Treaty
and way of life. is passed.
 I had to narrow the
question in order to talk
about the specific part of
the treaty

15.  If the U.N. pass the treaty  The people with
on small arms the unregistered weapons
American people would can do what they want
be in danger from people knowing they cannot be
with unregistered harmed because the law
weapons abiding citizens to not
have wepons.

16.  This Article asks whether the Second Amendment
should likewise be read to incorporate both the right
to keep or bear arms for self-defense and the inverse
right to protect oneself this helped me by giving me
accurate information on my research question
ARTICLE

17.  Is a book written by Wayne La Pierre he talks facts
and teaches how to fight back against the Treaty. I will
use this book for a source because this book is the
main part of my topic since safety of America is my
main priority.
Book

18.  Kevin Kelly created this site in order tell the world how
guns keep America Safe from dangerous people, and I
will use this website as a reference in order argue my
question
Website

19.  I decided to go with these three soursces because these
we on my topic the closes and they were credible by
the standards presented in class

20. Gilhill, Mark. "Controlling the World Through Gun Control." Controlling the World
Through Gun Control. Endtime.com, 04 July 2012. Web. 05 Nov. 2012.
<http://www.endtime.com/blog/gun-control/>.