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elfman2 - As long as you’re certain that the Constitution is "explicit on every issue", could you show me where that’s stated as well?
That's not my quote, elfman2. The Constitution is not explicit on every issue. The Constitution is explicit on every governmental power.
The power to decide war was given to Congress. If Congress gives that power to the President, the President is deciding war. That's illegal.
As an aside, when the President breaks the law, Congress is required to punish the transgression. If the President decides to go to war, and Congress allows it, Congress is breaking the law, too.
I’ll take your word that I misquoted you. I apologize.
I see nothing intrinsic in the power to do something that excludes the power to delegate it. And to some extent, the Commander & Chief will always be delegated with the power to not wage war after Congress authorizes it. So in that sense, the latest congressional authorizations were a declaration of war, but with early recognition of the executive's authority to abstain from prosecuting it.
This is the kind of flexibility that our enemies probably didn’t expect of this nation when they declared war on us.