However, you supplied quotes that came from speeches announcing the action of Congress. You can find an example here. That brings us back to the main point: You said: “What I want to know is what a Declaration of War is required to say?”
And my answer is this: That it was ratified by the Congress.
About four minutes of going through a text with all the declarations of war passed by the US, created by the Congressional Research Service, which is the same place I got the quotes in the first place.
However, you supplied quotes that came from speeches announcing the action of Congress.
Your willful obtuseness is well-known, but it's difficult to understand how you can, with a straight face, continue to claim that something identified by the Congressional Research Service as a declaration of war, and bearing the title "An Act Declaring War Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and the United States of America and Their Territories" and starting with the line "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled..." isn't REALLY a declaration of war enacted by congress but is instead some sort of--let me get this straight--speech announcing a declaration of war that, apparently no one can find, since these are the only texts research finds as US declarations of war.
You can find an example here..
Maybe you didn't read that, but it says it's a presidential proclamation, not a speech. And it quotes the same congressional declaration of war that I quoted.
And my answer is this: That it was ratified by the Congress.
See, here's the deal. I don't believe that there's any amount of evidence that would lead to you concede that what I presented were the actual declarations of war. I could find the vote totals, the original Congressional Globe texts, and still you'd find a way to deny it while claiming that the actual declarations of war are something else that, apparently no one can find. So it's your turn. You come up with the REAL (according to you) declarations of war for the wars I presented. Show me I'm wrong rather than just insisting that I take your word for it. Time to put up, Pea.