A mockery was made of the Constitution, the Supreme Law, when President Clinton issued an executive order (EO 12852, June 29, 1993) establishing the "President's Council on Sustainable Development", when clearly sustainable development was the brainchild of an international body, the United Nations, and ran contrary to American law, especially property rights law. Essentially, if sustainable development was to be established as American law, and since it was developed internationally, the proper venue was a treaty that should have been debated and ratified, if approved by the U.S. Congress.