[GVnana]

Congress is not empowered to delegate any of their powers to another branch of government.

Huh? You can't practice government by rote. If what you say is true, then we would have no present military response to Al Qaeda. How would that possibly be a satisfactory outcome?

[Twodees]

Your reasoning is faulty. Congress doesn't have any warmaking powers to delegate. When they issue a declaration of war, they are simply triggering the executive's rightful use of his warmaking powers.

The reason that Congress cannot delegate its legislative powers to the judiciary or to the executive is that there is a deliberate separation of powers among the three branches of government. This is known as the doctrine of Separation of Powers. Surely you've heard of it.