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To: RightWhale
Get a Congressional Declaration of War first.

Agreed. Worth repeating.

9 posted on 10/15/2007 11:03:39 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: ctdonath2

“Get a Congressional Declaration of War first.”

The statement implies a Constitutional, legal and legislative myth, that the words “Declaration of War” must be included in Congressional legislation backing the Commander In Chief’s actions that place our military into combat. The founders had no such myth in mind. “Declaration of War” was understood (and identified in their debates) as a concept, not a required format, title or textual requirement in a Congressional act backing the Commander In Chief. The fact that it has been used, at times, is not a proof or excuse that it is a requirement, Constitutionally; it’s not.


35 posted on 10/15/2007 11:40:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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