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The Monroe Doctrine was an attempt to curtail the involvement of
European powers in North, Central, and South America. The view of neutrality
long held by the government of the United States served to keep the fledgling
nation out of the entangling affairs of the continent of Europe and secure trade for
her commerce as a neutral state. This doctrine served United States foreign policy
from 2 December 1823, into the twentieth century.
Notes
1. Thomas B. Edington, The Monroe Doctrine (Cambridge, Mass: University Press, 1904),
2.
2. Ibid., 23.
3. Ibid., 23.
4. Leonard A. Lawson, The relation of British policy to the declaration of the Monroe
doctrine (New York: Columbia University, 1922), 78-80.
5. Mark T. Gilderhus, “The Monroe Doctrine: Meanings and Implications,” Presidential
Studies Quarterly 36, no. 1 (March 2006): 7.
6. Ibid., 7.
7. Ibid., 7.
8. James W. Fawcett, "The Origin and Text of the Famous Monroe Doctrine,"
Congressional Digest 18, no. 3 (March 1939): 74.
9. Edington, 51.
10. Fawcett, 75.
11. James Monroe, “Seventh Annual Message, "Messages and Papers of the Presidents,
James Monroe, Vol. 1, 776.
12. Gilderhus, 8.
13. Lawson, 127.
14. Ibid., 137.
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