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Why Do Presidents Now Declare War Instead of Congress? ... Case Study ... War of 1812
...The below is excerpted from the above web page...
" Subsequent to 1812, Congress exercised its war powers five times: against Mexico in 1846; Spain in 1898; Germany in 1917; and, within three days of each other, against Germany and Japan in 1941. On each occasion, Congress acted in response to a president’s war message and all votes were close to unanimous, save the House of Representatives’ 373 to 50 vote to enter World War I. But Congress still took its power to declare war seriously. “By God,” one senator scolded McKinley’s war supporters in 1898, “don’t your President know where the war-declaring power is lodged?”
After World War II, came (1) Korea, (2) Vietnam, (3) Desert Storm, and of course, now (4) Iraq. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. chronicled the escalation of presidential power in the first two conflicts in The Imperial Presidency. In all four, Congress was neither asked by the respective presidents to issue a declaration of war nor did it initiate one on its own. In each instance, Congress essentially surrendered its war powers to the executive branch. "
...Buddy B...
Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq
Buddy, Congress did declare war in Iraq.