The USA Against The World

[Davey Crockett]

WAR IS A RACKET

AMENDMENT FOR PEACE

AMENDMENT FOR PEACE
Major General Smedley D. Butler
(Originally printed in Woman's Home Companion, September, 1936.)

I PROPOSE an Amendment for Peace, to the Constitution of the
United States:

1. The removal of members of the land armed forces from within the continental limits of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone for any cause whatsoever is prohibited.

2. The vessels of the United States Navy, or of the other branches of the armed service, are hereby prohibited from steaming, for any reason whatsoever except on an errand of mercy, more than five hundred miles from our coast.

3. Aircraft of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps is hereby prohibited from flying, for any reason whatsoever, more than seven
hundred and fifty miles beyond the coast of the United States.

Such an amendment would be absolute guarantee to the women of America that their loved ones never would be sent overseas to be needlessly shot down in European or Asiatic or African wars that are no concern of our people.
SUCH an amendment, linked with adequate naval and military
defenses at home, would guarantee everlasting peace to our nation.

3. Aircraft of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps is hereby prohibited from flying, for any reason whatsoever, more than seven
hundred and fifty miles beyond the coast of the United States.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Remembering the Ludlow Amendment​

Remembering the Ludlow Amendment

Few people today have ever heard of the Ludlow Amendment—a radical proposal that would have required a popular referendum before Congress could declare war and which

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