A. Lodge believed Article 10 of the covenant infringed on the United States' power to declare war, if necessary, and expand its territories.
During the early 1800s, America was a young nation whose political and economic structure was not as strong as it is today. As a result America had to face crop, insuarance and banking failures together with drops in the price of the cotton and the stock market and a crisis of credit and cash. It brought what was known as the economic panics.
