War referendum

{{Short description|Hypothetical referendum on whether to wage a war}} {{Direct Democracy}} A '''war referendum''' is a proposed type of referendum in which citizens would decide whether a nation should go to war. No such referendum has ever taken place. The earliest idea of a war referendum came from the Marquis de Condorcet in 1793 and Immanuel Kant in 1795.<ref name="ballot">{{Cite book |last=Bolt |first=Ernest C. Jr. |year=1977 |title=Ballots Before Bullets: The War Referendum Approach to Peace in America, 1914–1941 |url=https://archive.org/details/ballotsbeforebul0000bolt |url-access=registration |location=Charlottesville, Virginia |publisher=University Press of Virginia |pages=xii–xiii |isbn=978-0-8139-0662-1 }}</ref>

==See also== *Direct democracy *Ludlow Amendment

==References== {{reflist}} Category:Kantianism Category:Referendums by issue Referendum Referendum Category:Military reform referendums Category:Proposed referendums