war referendum

{{Short description|Referendum on whether to wage a war}}

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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.{{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

}}