Abstract

People say foreign policy is a special sort of public policy. This article challenges that claim. It argues that judges should treat foreign policy in the same way they treat other sorts of policy. The article responds to four related lines of argument: that foreign policy is special on account of the constitutional separation of powers; that it demands a special sort of democratic legitimacy; that it is especially complex, secret and prophetic; and that it is simply more important than other aspects of public policy. These might be good reasons to defer to the government in general, but they are not good reasons to grant special deference to foreign policy.

中文翻译：

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外交政策是否特殊？

摘要

人们说外交政策是一种特殊的公共政策。本文对这一说法提出质疑。它认为，法官应该像对待其他类型的政策一样对待外交政策。这篇文章回应了四个相关的论点：外交政策是特殊的，因为宪法分权；它需要一种特殊的民主合法性；它特别复杂、秘密和预言；并且它比公共政策的其他方面更重要。这些可能是总体上服从政府的好理由，但不是特别尊重外交政策的好理由。