...Panama, and in his message of 1904 President Roosevelt stated his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: "Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results...ultimately require intervention by some civilized power, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may...

...wrongdoing, or an impotence which resiilts in a general loosening of the ties of civilized sacie ty, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention...adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine niav force the United States, Iwwever reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing and impotence, to...

...keeps order and pays it obligations, then it need fear no interference from the United States. Brutal wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may finally require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the United States...

...general loosening i'/ the rie.< of cii'ilized society... niiiy force the I 'nited States, lioii'erer reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing...impotence, to the exercise of an international police poii'cr. " Theodore Roosevelt, address to Congress, 1904 i Elihu Root. (1845-1937) An American lawyer,...

...barbarism." "It is not true that the United States has any land hunger," he wrote to Elihu Root. But "brutal wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of a civilized society, may finally require intervention by some civilized nation."14-' Leonard Wood's...

...matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results...to the exercise of an international police power. If eyery country washed by the Caribbean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization...

...need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing or an impotence which results in general loosening of the ties of civilized society,...flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to exercise of an international power." 8. What was the term used to describe President Monroe's first...

...year, President Roosevelt outlined his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine: "Chronic wrongdoing ... may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention...to the exercise of an international police power." 9 The United States went on to seize the customs houses of the Dominican Republic, as it later did...

...impossible. President Bush's moralizing rhetoric of good and evil in the cam18 "Chronic wrongdoing . . . may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention...adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may lead the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to...

...European great powers— especially Germany— grounds for in21 tervening. As Roosevelt put it in 19o4, "[c]hronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results...general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may . . . ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere . . ....