---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6712"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6712"
heading: "No abridgement of constitutional rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6712"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §6712. No abridgement of constitutional rights


No [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) may be required, as a condition for entering into a contract with the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) or as a condition for receiving any benefit from the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14), to waive any right under the Constitution for any purpose related to this chapter or the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title I, § 102, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–861.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.