Republican (proto-fascist/socialist) President Theodore Roosevelt—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Spooner Isthmian Canal Act, providing 40,000,000 Dollars for the construction of a canal across the Colombian enclave of Panama—provided Colombia grants perpetual sovereignty to the United states.

       [restored 5/29/2022]

Subsequent Events:

1/22/1903                   2/11/1903

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 260.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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