Show that in the record. (As you are so fond of saying.)
Show that in the record. (As you are so fond of saying.)
I've posted it over and over:
"By the Constitution, Congress alone has the power to declare a national or foreign war. It cannot declare was against a State, or any number of States, by virtue of any clause in the Constitution. The Constitution confers on the President the whole Executive power. He is bound to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He is Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States. He has no power to initiate or declare a war either against a foreign nation or a domestic State. But by the Acts of Congress of February 28th, 1795, and 3d of March, 1807, he is authorized to called out the militia and use the military and naval forces of the United States in case of invasion by foreign nations, and to suppress insurrection against the government of a State or of the United States."
-- Majority ruling, The Prize Cases, December 1862 term
As to the Congress, it voted more than adequate funds to prosecute the war, and as for the people, in case you missed it, they fought the rebel armies toe to toe until the latter were defeated and the rebel armies riven by desertion.
Walt