The insidious wiles of foreign influence

[LuckyTheDog]

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4061122

FOR the first century of their country's history, American lawmakers and judges repeatedly looked beyond America's borders, particularly to England, for precedents that could help their own legal thinking. Over the next century, America ardently supported efforts to create a framework of international laws and institutions. But since the end of the cold war, and particularly since the election of George Bush, it has grown increasingly resistant to “foreign” influence. Or so many outsiders claim...