[Cacophonous]

It also does not say the Executive shall have the power to declare or wage war. Implicitly, then, he does not.

If the Founders' intent was to for the Executive to be able wage his own wars, why would that excerpt from Article 1, Section 8 be necessary?

As I've said, I'm not a legal expert, but I do know that the Founding Fathers wasted no words or ideas as far as the Constitution is concerned. If they said it, it meant something. Conversely, that fact that something was not said meant something too.

It's only lawyers that try to read between the lines that screw things up.

[CapandBall]

It is agreed then. The US is not "obliged" to declare war (in the constitutional sense) in order to wage war.

I'm glad we could agree on this, and I'm sure you understand why I had to take exception to your post #57