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Updated February 25, 2017. The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy outlined in 1968 which called for the use of Warsaw Pact (but Russian-dominated) troops to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation which was seen to compromise communist rule and Soviet domination.
The plenary power doctrine was first articulated in the immigration. context in the Chinese exclusion cases. Chinese immigration had been. encouraged as a source of cheap labor in the United States from the 1840s. through the 1860s .