eventually the madisonian's one.and we managed to keep ourselves free of other peoples trading systems systems for a long time. and after world war ii, we had the power to engineer and international trade system that was really structured around a strange but kind of weirdly perfect amount of energy dependence and independence. in which the nations of the world were kind of brought together in a system in which they could pursue their own sovereignty, yet there was just enough industrial energy dependence to ensure that it was really hard for them to go to war with each other. our postwar trading system hammered together at bretton woods insured peace and prosperity through energy dependence for many decades. so what have are free traders done over the last 17 years? since the clinton administration came in and signed nafta, since the clinton came in and signed the general agreement on tears and trade? they have essentially sold the key to this empire. this beautiful, this liberal, this cosmopolitan empire, is so car