War referendum
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A war referendum is a proposed type of referendum in which citizens would decide whether a nation should go to war. No such referendum has ever taken place. The earliest idea of a war referendum came from the Marquis de Condorcet in 1793 and Immanuel Kant in 1795.[1]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bolt, Ernest C. Jr. (1977). Ballots Before Bullets: The War Referendum Approach to Peace in America, 1914–1941. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. pp. xii–xiii. ISBN 978-0-8139-0662-1.