Woodrow Wilson embraced all of these ideas EXCEPT

A) National self­determination would be the key to humanity's political salvation.
B) If peoples were given a choice of government, they would universally choose democracy.
C) If all countries were democratic, the moral force of world public opinion would be a powerful deterrent to war.
D) It is possible to trust in the morality and common sense of the ordinary person.
E) The nation-state is rapidly becoming an obsolete form of political society.


Answer: E) The nation-state is rapidly becoming an obsolete form of political society.

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