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.
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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.