[San Jacinto]

Comprehensive knowledge of laws is important. Much of our legal system was built on English Common Law. Foreign legal theorists such as Montaigne played an important role in the development of ours.

All of which is totally irrelevant to the whether current trends in international law should play a role in interpreting the U.S Constitution as espoused by Stevens,Ginsburg and O'Connor. Fundamentally, it is an issue of national sovereignty.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I don't share your belief that US law is in a bubble. Even the vocabulary of the Constitution is derived from the concepts of long established legal codes not of domestic origin. This is a tempest in a teapot and of no real concern.