go_to_war has definitions from the field of military
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[ verb ] (military) commence hostilities

Used in print

(Clarence Streit, "How the Civil War Kept You Sovereign"...)

I think it is essential , however , to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went_to_war in 1861 - if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject .

Related terms

war

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