"Chronic wrong doing ...may ...require intervention by ...the United States [in adherence to] the Monroe Doctrine ... ,however reluctantly,in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence,to the exercise of an international police power." The philosophy exemplified in this quote reveals that it was taken from
A) The Influence of Seapower upon History.
B) the Platt Amendment.
C) the Roosevelt Corollary.
D) a speech by William Jennings Bryan.

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The quote references the Monroe Doctrine and the idea that the United States may intervene in cases of chronic wrongdoing or impotence, in adherence to the doctrine. This philosophy is specifically known as the Roosevelt Corollary, which was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency.

"Chronic Wrong Doing