13 lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."194 34. Those who feel triumphant with the recent insertion of paragraph 3 in Article 5 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution, hostages of a formalist Law and having forgotten material Law, do not seem to realize that, from the point of view of International Law, a treaty such as the American Convention ratified by a State, binds the latter ipso jure, thus resulting immediately and directly applicable, whether it has previously obtained parliamentary approval by either simple or qualified majority. Such domestic provisions, -or let alone, interna corporis provisions- are mere facts from the international legal system perspective, that is, from the point of view of the legal international system and the international responsibility of the State, they are entirely irrelevant. 35. The international liability of the State for proven violations to human rights remains intangible, regardless of pseudo-legal maneuvers of certain publicists (as the creation of different modalities of prior parliamentary approval of certain treaties with expected legal consequences, the requirement of previous conditions for the direct applicability of humanitarian treaties within domestic law, among others), who merely offer the States empty excuses to try to avoid their commitments of protection of human life in the international adversarial environment of human rights. To sum up, the international protection of human rights constitutes an irreversible human conquest, which shall not be defeated by melancholic circumstances. 36. As we live in a surrealistic world, if not irrational, I had already expressed - in the Memorial that I submitted to the inauguration panel of the III National Conference of Human Rights at the National Congress in Brasilia in May 1998 - a warning against eventual and future restrictive constitutional amendments. More than a decade has gone by, and that was exactly and regrettably what has just happened. The empty legal formalism prevailed over the identity of purpose between domestic and international law regarding to the integral protection of rights inherent to the human being. In my 1998 premonition, I warned about the risks of future restrictions to the provisions of Article 5(2) of the Federal Constitution of 1988: "Modify it to adapt it - that is, to imprison it - to the hermetic and positivist thesis of the “constitutionalization” of treaties, would imply, in my opinion, a conceptual regression in our country in that respect. We have to go beyond the static “constitutionalization” of human rights treaties. Here, again, a fundamental change of mentality becomes essential, with a better understanding of the subject matter. It is not possible to continue thinking within legal categories and schemes created decades ago, facing the reality of a world which no longer exists."195 194 . A. Camus, Le mythe de Sisyphe, Paris, Gallimard, 1942, p. 168. . A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Memorial em Prol de uma Nova Mentalidade quanto à Proteção dos Direitos Humanos nos Planos Internacional e Nacional", 51 Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Internacional (1998) pp. 90-91. 195