War referendum
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| Congressional opposition to U.S. wars and interventions  |
| 1812 North America House Federalists’ Address |
| 1935-1939 (General) Neutrality Acts |
| 1935-40 (General) Ludlow Amendment |
| 1970 Vietnam McGovern-Hatfield Amendment |
| 1970 Southeast Asia Cooper-Church Amendment |
| 1971 Vietnam Repeal of Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| 1973 Southeast Asia Case-Church Amendment |
| 1973 (General) War Powers Resolution |
| 1974 Covert Ops (General) Hughes-Ryan Amendment |
| 1976 Angola Clark Amendment |
| 1982 Nicaragua Boland Amendment |
| 2007 Iraq House Concurrent Resolution 63 |
A War referendum is a type of referendum in which citizens decide whether a nation should go to war.
The earliest idea of a war referendum came from marquis de Condorcet in 1793 and Immanuel Kant in 1795.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Bolt, Jr., Ernest C. (1977). Ballots Before Bullets, The War Referendum Approach to Peace in America 1914-1941. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0813906628. p. xii-xiii
