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Nation Has Vague, Distant Memory Of Some Old Rule Where The President Couldn't Just Declare War On Anyone He Wanted
The Bee ^ | January 30, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 01/30/2024 4:32:26 PM PST by Navy Patriot

U.S. — According to sources, the nation still has a faint, distant memory of some obscure rule where the President couldn't just declare war whenever he wanted on anyone he wanted.

"Yeah, I feel like that was a thing," said one local woman to reporters. "It was, like, in some sort of document they wrote that had rules in it. I'm pretty sure it said the President can't unilaterally dictate that the nation is going to war, right? What was that rule called?"

"Ugh, I can't remember."

Political experts point to Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution, which points out that Congress alone shall have power to "declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water [...]" but the writing is old fashioned and written in this weird cursive language so it's hard to say for sure what that means. "No one can really say what they were going for when they wrote that," said one legal expert. "I'm not sure what 'Marque and Reprisal' even is. Was that a spy thriller from the '90s?"

Experts later confirmed that it's probably not a big deal so everyone should just not worry about it.

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TOPICS: Education; History
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Apparently, Joe Biden has used a government document referencing this inconvenient rule for toilet paper.
1 posted on 01/30/2024 4:32:26 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
...We will act quickly and decisively to bomb the people who did that thing," said President Biden. "It's ok folks, no worries! Truladshure bizzguzzit!"
2 posted on 01/30/2024 4:55:57 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: Navy Patriot
but the writing is old fashioned and written in this weird cursive language so it's hard to say for sure what that means.

It ſure iſ hard to read that ſpelling.

3 posted on 01/30/2024 5:03:33 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Navy Patriot

https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-joint-resolution/542


4 posted on 01/30/2024 5:08:31 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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But did Biden read this yet?

CAN Biden read?


5 posted on 01/30/2024 5:15:18 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Navy Patriot

Dude, I hate to be the one to break it to you.

But there aren’t any rules anymore.

Sorry,

L


6 posted on 01/30/2024 5:17:37 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Now that everyone has already moved thier assets he will bomb.😡


7 posted on 01/30/2024 5:21:52 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Lurker
Laws we don't like aren't part of "Our Democracy".
8 posted on 01/30/2024 5:40:24 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Lurker

I suspected that.


9 posted on 01/30/2024 5:55:45 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Beowulf9
CAN Biden read?

Well, I wouldn’t put money on it.

10 posted on 01/30/2024 6:48:22 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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