ISIS and a 1777 congressional Thanksgiving prayer (Chuck Norris on ISIS, Thanksgiving, Constitution)

WND ^ | November 22, 2015 | Chuck Norris

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Just after the Paris terror attacks last week, I wrote about how I thought they could go down in history as the catalyst that coalesced countries in the West and beyond into a World War III. Since then, other nations’ responses and increased terror attacks have only confirmed that we’ve entered into an unprecedented time in human history and war.

Pundits and politicians on both sides of the aisle criticize both the U.S. Congress and President Obama for not officially doing more to fight ISIS. Constitutionally speaking, as commander in chief of the armed forces, the president has the power to repel invasions. But the Framers of the Constitution bestowed the power to declare war upon Congress, unless it comes to invasion– like how the FBI has recently warned us that ISIS has presence in all 50 states of our union?

Dr. John Yoo, professor of law at the University of California-Berkley, explained for the Heritage Foundation, “Advocates of congressional power contend that the president cannot initiate hostilities because the Constitution expressly vests the power to ‘declare War’ in Congress. In support of that view, they note that, according to his notes from the Constitutional Convention, James Madison successfully advocated that Congress be given the power, not to ‘make’ war but to ‘declare’ war, to “leav[e] to the Executive the power to repel sudden attacks.” In 1862, the Supreme Court opined that the president ‘has no power to initiate or declare a war,’ but if there were an invasion, ‘the president is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force … without waiting for any special legislative authority.’ Prize Cases (1863).”

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