在20世纪美国最有名的案例"布朗对教育委员会"的裁决中，高院的法官们很可能就接受了政府关于种族隔离对外交的影响的简要解释。 政府解释说美国南方的种族隔离制度会破坏其与苏联竞争在发展中国家赢得民心民意的努力。
In the most celebrated American case of the twentieth century, Brown v. Board of Education, the Justices were probably influenced by a government brief explaining how racial segregation in the southern United States undermined American efforts to compete with the Soviet Union for the hearts and minds of people in developing countries.