The people's only power over the brute force of government is the constitutions. I can see nothing positive in following one bad precedent with another.
31 posted on 03/09/2003 7:32:55 PM PST by William Terrell
(People can exist without government but government can't exist without people.)
The people's only power over the brute force of government is the constitutions.
And the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, which they effectively did when they authorized the war powers resolution in the fall. So the system is working. What's the problem?