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To: Lane3 who wrote (211917)7/13/2007 1:55:16 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 793972
 
But in the real world of international relations, countries do abrogate treaties. One of the first the US abrogated was the Revolutionary war treaty with France, abrogated after the French revolution.

Other countries change policies or governments or conditions change, so treaties get abrogated.

The difference between contracts is that individuals don't have the sovereign right to abrogate contracts at will.

As for isolationism, I think that piece on CAFTA directly addresses the point. It's not like folks from different countries can't trade without treaties. You shouldn't have to document it.

In the real world, I think such treaties are practical necessitities. And they make trade freer than it realistically would be without them.

You can always imagine a theoretical world where there are no domestic interests (business, labor, whatever) lobbying for protection and all other nations practice free trade too, but that isn't the way the real world is.
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