All 3 Uses of
doctrine
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- It read in part: "They [Lincoln and Stone] believe that the institution of slavery is founded on injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends to increase rather than abate its evils."†
Subsection 4
- The party put out a campaign pamphlet entitled: The New Democratic Doctrine: Slavery not to be confined to the Negro race, but to be made the universal condition of the laboring classes of society.†
Subsection 4
- The supporters of this doctrine vote for Buchanan.†
Subsection 4 *
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group