[goldstategop]

If the representatives of the people want to give the President the determination of when to go to war, I'd say they're acting within their authority. This country has launched military involvements without a congressional declaration of war before and the courts never took judicial notice.

[AndyJackson]

I think that the SC has already pretty much settled this issue. When Congress passes budgets with full knowledge of where the money is going, and when they have passed resolutions authorizing the use of force they have for all intents and purposes exercised their war declaration powers.

[Cacophonous]

If the representatives of the people want to give the President the determination of when to go to war, I'd say they're acting within their authority.

With all due respect, while it is wonderful that you have studied the issue enough to have an opinion, when so many have not, what you think is not important, unless you are going to translate those thoughts into an attempt to amend the Constitution. What matters is what the Constitution says in Article I, Section 8.

This country has launched military involvements without a congressional declaration of war before and the courts never took judicial notice.

The President (whoever he was at the time) was wrong then, and the courts should have. Bad precedents should not be repeated.