POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: American Imperialism, William Jennings Bryan
Document Summary
Document one: his justification is that the constitution states that the philippines belongs to the united. He also says it is their god-given duty and right to take control and expand the nation (manifest destiny): senator beveridge believes that the mission of the us is to lead in the regeneration of the world . What this means is that they will expand and bring americans all over the world to start a completely new world. Document two: some of mckinley"s justifications for keeping the philippines would be fear of seeming cowardly and that it would be bad for business if they gave it up. Overall, he justified that giving the philippines to any other nation would result in some bad consequence: one positive reason was that he didn"t want to leave them to rule themselves because they wouldn"t last long.
