Before considering Professor as benevolent as the unnamed professor seems to suggest. Professor Yet the Professor ignores the inherently imperialistic subtext contained in the Doctrine, and thus his comparison of the Monroe Doctrine to the Roosevelt Corollary omits a fundamental aspect of America's colonialist history. Monroe wrote that the efforts of Spain and Portugal "to improve the condition of the people of [colonized countries in the Americas]" produced disappointing results and suggests that the United States was in a better position to assume the role of colonial overseer given the connection The nation's unique geographic, social, and political relationship with the Americas justified this right to benevolent imperialism largely based on the idea that American government “has been achieved through the loss of so much blood and treasure, and has matured through the wisdom of its most enlightened citizens, [which has produced] unprecedented happiness [throughout America].” However, in this utopian treatment of the American political system there is the inherent suggestion that the American definition of “unprecedented happiness” was universally applicable throughout the Americas. The United States suggests a benevolent intention, the idea that America had an indirect authority over its neighbors indicates an impetuous… middle of paper… universal definition of “civilized nation,” a notion first encountered in the Monroe Doctrine. The parallelism of textuality issues lends credence to the claim that the Roosevelt Corollary was a natural political evolution of turn-of-the-century American militaristic power combined with the continued dissipation of the institution of direct colonialism during the same period. This period produced an international landscape in which America no longer had to rely solely on “ideological proliferation” to avoid becoming embroiled in European imperialistic interests in the Americas. While the Roosevelt Corollary extended the reach of the Monroe Doctrine (both physically and ideologically), understanding both documents' respective ties to a deeper commitment to imperialism reveals an evolutionary connection rather than a corruption..