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Eventually the pressures for compromise broke the power of the ultras over American policy . By April 1846 it was clear that a negotiated settlement along the 49th parallel would receive the overwhelming endorsement of the Senate .
Eventually the pressures for compromise broke the power of the ultras over American policy . By April 1846 it was clear that a negotiated settlement along the 49th parallel would receive the overwhelming endorsement of the Senate .
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But the Senate will not pass on them . The Senate has only the pact before it , and this is so simple and so general as to make reservations , in the old sense , impossible . The Senate can either ratify or refuse to do so .
But the Senate will not pass on them . The Senate has only the pact before it , and this is so simple and so general as to make reservations , in the old sense , impossible . The Senate can either ratify or refuse to do so .
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sympathizers to lay the blame on malice , or the Senate's undue jealousy of its constitutional rights . A legislative body may be little adapted to assuming a dispassionate attitude toward foreign policy , but is not always impressed by ...
sympathizers to lay the blame on malice , or the Senate's undue jealousy of its constitutional rights . A legislative body may be little adapted to assuming a dispassionate attitude toward foreign policy , but is not always impressed by ...
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EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST | 3 |
can Continent 1760 | 18 |
The French Interest in American Independence 1778 | 27 |
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| Title | Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign Policy |
| Editor | Norman A. Graebner |
| Compiled by | Norman A. Graebner |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 892 pages |
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