Tag Archives: bush-doctrine

Suzerainty

While doing some research for a history paper tonight, I came across this political term: Suzerainty. According to Wikipedia, a suzerainty “is a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity [the suzerain] which allows the tributary some limited domestic autonomy but controls its foreign affairs.” I came [...]

Lincoln Against Pre-Emptive War

According to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s fantastic editorial in the Washington Post: “In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to the Mexican War: ‘Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say [...]

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