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To: DugwayDuke; JoinJuniorAchievement
He is the only one who submitted a declaration of War.

You got a copy or a cite for that?

There's a press release from Ron Paul's office on the DoW here.

As I recall, at the time Dennis Hastert called the Constitution an "anachronism", but I couldn't immediately find a source on that.

73 posted on 08/07/2007 7:54:21 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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To: JTN

It was Rep. Hyde:

“There are things in the Constitution that have been overtaken by events, by time. Declaration of war is one of them. There are things no longer relevant to a modern society. Why declare war if you don’t have to? We are saying to the President, use your judgment. So, to demand that we declare war is to strengthen something to death. You have got a hammerlock on this situation, and it is not called for. Inappropriate, anachronistic, it isn’t done anymore.”


77 posted on 08/07/2007 7:59:05 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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