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{{Short description|Referendum on whether to wage a war}}
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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.<ref name="ballot">{{Cite book

|last=Bolt
A '''War referendum''' is a type of [[referendum]] in which citizens decide whether a nation should go to war.
|first=Ernest C. Jr.

The earliest idea of a war referendum came from [[marquis de Condorcet]] in 1793 and [[Immanuel Kant]] in 1795.<ref name="ballot">{{Cite book
|last=Bolt, Jr.
|first=Ernest C.
|authorlink=
|coauthors=
|year=1977
|year=1977
|title=Ballots Before Bullets, The War Referendum Approach to Peace in America 1914-1941
|title=Ballots Before Bullets: The War Referendum Approach to Peace in America, 1914–1941
|url=https://archive.org/details/ballotsbeforebul0000bolt
|url-access=registration
|location=Charlottesville, Virginia
|publisher=University Press of Virginia
|publisher=University Press of Virginia
|pages=xii–xiii
|location=Charlottesville
|isbn=978-0-8139-0662-1
|id=ISBN 0813906628
}}p. xii-xiii</ref>
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==Notes==
==See also==
*[[Direct democracy]]
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*[[Ludlow Amendment]]


==References==
[[Category:Referendums]]
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[[Category:Kantianism]]
[[Category:Referendums by issue]]
[[Category:War and politics|Referendum]]
[[Category:Chronology of war|Referendum]]
[[Category:Military reform referendums| ]]
[[Category:Proposed referendums]]


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Latest revision as of 00:28, 7 November 2023

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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  1. ^ 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.