Episode 780: Are war powers the same as a declaration of war?

Dan Clements, Your Constitutional Warrior Tuesday April 18, 2017

There has been much controversy over this question and we are going to explore it on today’s show. I know folks want to streamline politics as much as possible, but to take something as important as committing our country to war, we need to slow down and take out time.

If the continental United states or her territories where attacked directly, you would find very few Americans who would disagree with a president, defending our country without a declaration of war. To repel an attack is in the purview of the commander and chiefs authority.

But if the continental United States or her territories is not directly attacked, does the same hold true? If an American interest over seas is attacked, can the president act without congressional approval? To go to war with a country to effect regime change, is that within congress’s or the presidents power?

Daily Bible reading: Philippians 3:12-14 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Quotemeal: “Christian spirituality does not begin with us talking about our experience; it begins with listening to God call us, heal us, forgive us.” — Eugene Peterson

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War Powers | Law Library of Congress loc.gov

The War Powers Resolution: An Unnecessary, Unconstitutional Source of “Friendly Fire” in the War Against International Terrorism? By Professor Robert F. Turner fed-soc.org 02/15/2017

Nixon and the War Powers Resolution Bill of Rights Institute billofrightsinstitute.org

War and Treaty Powers of the U. S. Constitution law2.umkc.edu

Presidential War Powers: The Constitutional Answer By Tom Woods libertyclassroom.com

Ann Coulter: “I Don’t Care If It Was Assad Who Used Chemical Weapons, I’m Tired Of Regime Change” By Chris Menahan InformationLiberation 04/12/2017

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