Continuing on the general theme of "where do international bodies such as the ICC fit relative to the US Govt", there's a great article by John Coumarianos @ Innocents Abroad about the core tenets of Transnational Progressivism.   John is summarizing from an earlier article, very well received article by John Fonte entitled the "The Ideological War Within the West".

Fonte starts with the following, illustrative example:

In October 2000, in preparation for the UN Conference Against Racism, about fifty American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) called on the UN "to hold the United States accountable for the intractable and persistent problem of discrimination."

The NGOs included Amnesty International-U. S.A. (AI-U. S.A.), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Arab-American Institute, National Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and others. Their spokesman stated that their demands "had been repeatedly raised with federal and state officials [in the U. S.] but to little effect. In frustration we now turn to the United Nations." In other words, the NGOs, unable to enact the policies they favored through the normal processes of American constitutional democracy—the Congress, state governments, even the federal courts—appealed to authority outside of American democracy and its Constitution.

As Fonte goes on to point out, many of the demands iterated by the various NGOs required fundamental restrictions on Free Speech, suspension of electorate/majority rule on various governance issues, etc.  all of which are in violation of the (our) Constitution.   The NGO's, of course, considered transnational law preeminent over the US constitution.

The remainder of the article is a fascinating read and one of the better pieces of political scholarship in recent years.   Coumarianos' article has a simple summary of the core tenets of Transnational Progressivism as identifed by Fonte include:

1. The ascribed group over the individual citizen
2. A dichotomy of groups: Oppressor vs. victim groups, with immigrant groups designated as victims
3. Group proportionalism as the goal of fairness.

And so on.... leading up to: 

(9) The idea that transnationalism is a major conceptual tool. Transnational progressivism seeks the utilization of the word “transnationalism” in a normative sense, Implying that antiglobalists are “backward.”

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Of course, Den Beste has his own, very insightful comments on the Fonte article.   Fonte published a second, longer version of his article here.

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