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A belief promoted to policy, dressed up so nobody asks who decided.
means A set of principles taught and held as authoritative by a religion, government, or institution.
from From Latin doctrina, teaching, from docere, to teach — the same root that gives us doctor, the one who supposedly knows.
Military flavorThe Monroe Doctrine staked claim to a whole hemisphere.
Legal cousinCourts cite doctrines to decide what law actually means.
Soft enforcementDoctrine binds insiders without needing a single law.