To: allmendream; wideawake
When we sign away a right, the legal document explicitly acknowledges the right being waived. If any treaty waives the right of Congress to declare war, language to that effect should be in the treaty.
To: danielmryan
And it does not.
The provisions of the NATO charter obligate us to treat an attack upon a member State as an attack upon the USA.
After an attack upon the USA (like at Pearl Harbor, or 9-11) Congress is still the possessor of the power to declare war.
They are the only ones with this power under the Constitution.
174 posted on
06/18/2011 6:44:57 AM PDT by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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