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Framing the framers: the Left enlists some 'dead white males' in the cause of today's international law.(THE JUDICIARY)

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| June 06, 2005 | Rivkin, David B., Jr.; Casey, Lee A. | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

FOR years, academics and left-wing activists have been searching for a means of enforcing international law, as they construe it, against the United States. So far, they have not been particularly successful. This was true even throughout Bill Clinton's presidency, when there was a good deal of international-law rhetoric but precious little practical application. Mr. Clinton was, after all, the first U.S. president to reject the International Criminal Court; he also took the United States to war against Serbia without obtaining United Nations approval.

George W. Bush has made clear by word and deed that he will never seek an international "permission slip" to ...

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