Roosevelt's strategy of occupation philosophically presupposed an import to democracy as noted by his 'New Nationalism' speech in 1910. Here, he pronounced that it ought rightly to be nothing less than the purpose of America's being in existence and honoring the claims of the Constitution to incite others to recognize the value of democracy. As Roosevelt argued, "Our country -- this great Republic -- means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the Implicit to the assumptions of Roosevelt's New Nationalism would be such American assumptions as Caucasian racial superiority, Christian moral denomination and western patriarchy. Such is to say that assumptions of cultural superiority and ethnocentrism that would be inherent to Roosevelt's perspective would also have a heavy bearing on future...
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