[inquest]

LOL, well that's a good sign, you're backing off and beginning to modify your original foolish statement!

You're having some serious trouble with this. What you call a "modification" was the whole basis of my question back at #92, which now for the fourth time you're showing you can't answer.

the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and that, as you would say, is a traditional and historical "default" power of the office of Commander-in-Chief.

And this is the second time I've told you that I never said that.

[Boot Hill]

inquest:   "What you call a "modification" was the whole basis of my question back at #92, which now for the fourth time you're showing you can't answer."

Perhaps, but nevertheless it IS a modification (v 1.02) of your unfounded "specific exclusivity" theory you promulgated in #88.

And yes, (for the fourth time) you were given that answer, but since you seem to be a glutton for punishment, here it is again...

Since the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and as you would say, that is a traditional and historical "default" power of the office of Commander-in-Chief, and since the Constitution does not specifically state that the power of Commander-in-Chief belongs solely to the President, then according to your own ill-begotten "specific exclusivity" principle (v 1.02), Congress can now act as Commander-in-Chief and not just declare war, but also make war.

Boot Hill:   "the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war and that, as you would say, is a traditional and historical "default" power of the office of Commander-in-Chief."

inquest:   "I never said that."

LOL, then who is the "mystery poster" quoted below? Sounds an awful like you talking about the "traditional and historical default powers of the office of Commander-in-Chief"!!!

"The Constitution didn't change the rules of the English language. Whatever the term 'commander in chief' meant before the Constitution was ratified, that's what it meant afterwards also...being commander in chief involves, by default, the power of setting rules..."