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The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic.〔Siekmeier, (2013)〕 The United Kingdom had large and indefinite territorial claims in three regions: British Honduras (present-day Belize), the Mosquito Coast (the region along the Atlantic coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras) and the Bay Islands (now part of Honduras). The United States, while not making any territorial claims, held in reserve, ready for ratification, treaties with Nicaragua and Honduras which gave the United States a certain diplomatic advantage with which to balance the ''de facto'' British dominion. Agreement on these points being impossible and agreement on the canal question possible, the latter was put in the foreground.〔Van Alstyne, 1939〕 ==Essential points of the treaty== The resulting treaty had four essential points:〔Pletcher, 1998〕 # It bound both parties not to "obtain or maintain" any exclusive control of the proposed canal, or unequal advantage in its use. #It guaranteed the neutralization of the canal. #It declared that the parties agreed "to extend their protection by treaty stipulation to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America." #Finally, it stipulated that neither signatory would ever "occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast or any part of Central America", nor make use of any protectorate or alliance, present or future, to such ends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clayton–Bulwer Treaty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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