stackyFACTSTaking over an entire sovereign nation usually requires a massive formal treaty, but lawmakers were heavily impatient.
Taking over an entire sovereign nation usually requires a massive formal treaty, but lawmakers were heavily impatient. In 1898, pro-annexation politicians desperately realized they absolutely did not have the heavily required two-thirds Senate majority to legally pass a treaty acquiring Hawaii. Instead, they just completely bypassed the Constitution by passing a simple 'joint resolution' requiring a mere majority vote, legally stealing the islands on a technicality.
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