It's no wonder so many people think congress does not need to declare war, only the president can?!
The president can veto BILLS not laws!
Clause 1:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
A democracy is based on balancing the power between each branch of the government so that one branch is not so powerful that it is able to control the whole.
Strange definition for democracy. It sure doesn't look like what the founders figured democracy to be:
In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. - Madison, Federalist #14.
Furthermore the Constitution mandates a Republic as the form of government, not a Democracy:
Constitution Article IV Section. 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Public school teachers are consistently drawn from the bottom 25% of their high school and college classes. I can only presume that public-school bureaucrats are the bottom of the bottom of the barrel...
I suppose they are reflecting the "state of fact". When was the last time Congress had the guts to declare war or to prevent a Prez from making it? The Consitution is becoming less and less relevant and teaching the kids that it's the Congress who declares war would be misleading.
Where is the "America is a Republic" statement.
[Congress] has no judicial power except for investigation
That would come as a surprise to Andy Johnson and Bill Clinton [and several federal judges]
has no power over other branches except to impede the passage of laws or special programs
Interesting, since it has supreme power over the organization of Judiciary, and it's scope of authority. And must advise and consent to Executive appointees.
Hey, listen, this is all minor. I was taught that the "Constitution of the United States is a living document." Once you accept that lie, anything else is just details.
Re: My # 17. I'll donate $10. Perhaps FR would like to sponsor this and send them the articles -- along with an ....(ahem)....appropriately worded letter.
Freepers, this is what the Michigan education system is teaching third graders about the U.S. government. I tripped over this page by accident, and could not believe it. According to the web site,