Translation of the Proposed Constitution for Cuba, the Official Acceptance of the Platt Amendment, and the Electoral Law
Constitutional amendment
By: Elihu Root
Date: November 1901
Source: Translation of the Proposed Constitution for Cuba, the Official Acceptance of the Platt Amendment, and the Electoral Law. Elihu Root, trans. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.
About the Author: Elihu Root (1845–1937) was a corporate lawyer and U.S. attorney who served as secretary of war from 1899 to 1903 under presidents William McKinley (served 1897–1901) and Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–1909) and as secretary of state from 1905 to 1909 under Roosevelt. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912, Root was one of the few Republican supporters of the League of Nations. Although he was the architect and negotiator of the Platt Amendment, it bears the name of Orville H. Platt (1827–1905), Republican senator from Connecticut, who sponsored the measure in the U.S. Senate.
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