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America was founded, settled and fashioned by the [[British Empire]], but then broke away in the [[American Revolution]], declaring independence in 1776 in the name of [[republicanism]].

America was founded, settled and fashioned by the [[British Empire]], but then broke away in the [[American Revolution]], declaring independence in 1776 in the name of [[republicanism]].

[[Thomas Jefferson]] saw America's mission as creating a global "Empire of Liberty" -- that is promoting freedom and liberty around the globe by example, by expansion, and by intervention. Major exponents included [[Abraham Lincoln]] (in the Gettysburg Address (1863), [[Woodrow Wilson]] and "[[Wilsonianism]]", and [[George W. Bush]] in the drive for liberty and democracy around the world.

[[Thomas Jefferson]] saw America's mission as creating a global "Empire of Liberty" -- that is promoting freedom and liberty around the globe by example, by expansion, and by intervention. Major exponents included [[Abraham Lincoln]] (in the Gettysburg Address (1863), [[Woodrow Wilson]] and "[[Wilsonianism]]'', and [[George W. Bush]] in the drive for liberty and democracy around the world.

In [[American diplomatic history]] the Empire of Liberty has meant opposition to tyranny and totalitarianism, especially in the [[Spanish American War]] (1898), [[World War I]], [[World War II]], the [[Cold War]] and the [[War on terrorism]].

In [[American diplomatic history]] the Empire of Liberty has meant opposition to tyranny and totalitarianism, especially in the [[Spanish American War]] (1898), [[World War I]], [[World War II]], the [[Cold War]] and the [[War on terrorism]].

Conservative Henry Nau has argued that '''conservative internationalism''' is the foreign policy of [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[James K. Polk]], [[Harry Truman]], and [[Ronald Reagan]]. They did more to expand freedom abroad through the assertive use of military force than any others.<ref> At home, Abraham Lincoln sis even more more to expand freedom by force.</ref>. They expanded freedom on behalf of self-government, local or national, not on behalf of central or international government, as liberal internationalists advocate, and they used force to seize related opportunities to spread freedom, not to maintain the status quo, as realists recommend.

Bacevich (2004) argues that America has been committed to building an empire by design, not accident. He argues that the recent foreign policy has accepted an American mission as the guardian of history, responsible for changing the world by making it more open and more integrated. American global leadership means maintaining preeminence in the world's strategically significant regions, together with permanent global military supremacy.

 

President Barack Obama in his 2009 Nobel Prize Address specifically rejected the liberal nonviolence policies of [[Martin Luther King]], and proclaimed America has a duty to lead the fight against evil in the world, starting with the [[Afghanistan War]]. His conservative arguments stunned his liberal supporters.

==Other dimensions==

==Other dimensions==

Economic dimensions include the spread of American management, as for example in the [[Marshall Plan]] in the 1940s.

Economic dimensions include the spread of American management, as for example in the [[Marshall Plan]] in the 1940s.