[fluffdaddy]

Nobody, literally nobody, with any expertise in constitutional law would argue that the War Powers Act (or Resolution if you prefer) is constitutional. No President has treated it as such. Several have repudiated it explicitly and Presidents of both parties have refused to follow it. No Congress has insisted that any President comply with it. No House has ever impeached or tried to impeach a President for flouting the War Powers Act. It's a dead letter, an historical curiosity, a product of the leftist revolt against the Vietnam War long since overtaken by events. Anyone who cites it is, to be charitable, naive.

Outside the world of black helicopters and sinister plots involving fluoridation, the War Powers Act is a punch line, not the basis of a serious argument.

[OldDeckHand]

"It's a dead letter,"

That phrase doesn't mean what you think it does.

[Sea Parrot]

After the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson was charged with violating the constitution. For he declared martial law, impressed every able body man in New Orleans, armed, and ordered them to get their butts down on the levee and fight. He was tried, convicted and had to pay a sizable fine. Later IIRC, he said he would do same again, for in time of war, the constitution was not a suicide pact.