The same circumstances however put them in a situation where they had to recognize self-evidently foreign cultural supremacy and voluntarily absorb the basic values and categories of colonial Europe.
In the matter of regulating commerce with foreign nations, the supremacy as well as the exclusivity of the federal government is generally understood.
With his recent statements on China trade and the deployment of American troops in Kosovo, Gov. George W. Bush has placed himself squarely in a Republican tradition of favoring internationalism and presidential supremacy in foreign policy.
As national security advisor during Richard M. Nixon's first term, Mr. Kissinger readily challenged Secretary of State William P. Rogers for supremacy in foreign affairs -- and soon became the de facto secretary of state, a title he formally received near the end of Nixon's presidency.
"The fact that local residents feel disinclined to visit a local park is simply not the type of injury that can be considered to be in the 'line of causation' for alleged violations of the foreign affairs power and Supremacy Clause," Anderson said in court documents.
Corporate Japan must have been doing something right after all.Of course, some foreign companies can boast similar supremacy in global markets.
In some ways, conceding leadership of the drug fight to Mexico hews to a guiding principle of Mr. Obama's foreign policy, in which American supremacy is played down, at least publicly, in favor of a multilateral approach.
The proposals of the Uefa President, Michel Platini, to bar entry to the Champions League to teams that engage in "financial doping" are still widely seen as a foreign plot to undermine the supremacy of English clubs in Europe, when they should be embraced as an excuse to return to sanity.
It could provide the right-wing with excuses to claim that all left-wing protest against Trump or white supremacy is actually foreign governments or hackers, and that those protests don't represent the views of real Americans.
In the pre-industrial era, when transport and communications were often easier by sea than by land, Britain was unusually open to external influence; first through foreign invasion, then, after Britain achieved naval supremacy, through commerce and imperial expansion.
