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the Constitution gives congress, and congress alone, the ability to declare war. What is the branch of the U.S. government that moves the slowest, has the most debate, is most subject to the changing demands of the citizens, and is the most likely to spend months or even years talking without ever taking meaningfull action? The Congress. That is by

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elel
June 12, 2007, 11:40 a.m.
Would that there were more "thoughts" all around!
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gfarral
June 12, 2007, 6:43 p.m.
Jeff I have posted many times in the past year that Congress has abdicated its duty since W.W.II and unconstitutionally given power to the administrative branch of government. If the use of our military power is truly needed, then Congress needs to make that declaration or we stay home!
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HannibalBarca
June 13, 2007, 12:58 a.m.
This article was Jeff's thoughts,right in the first paragraph
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Centinel
June 13, 2007, 8:08 a.m.
I think Ron Paul would have agreed in the entirety. He is after all a staunch constitutionalist.
Why would you think Ron Paul would not have any thoughts? Have you bothered to research his positions?
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onlyonesecret
June 13, 2007, 9:41 a.m.
You know Ron Paul has the integrity to stand up and say "enough is enough." Enough aggressive and costly wars, enough government bloat, enough corruption from within, enough gouging of America's middle class. He loves and respects the Constitution the way any real American should, And he is educating people on what it means to think.
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Truzseeker
June 13, 2007, 11:18 a.m.
Populist that is what I discovered. Congress gave its unconstitutional authority to the president to take aggressive action. Here we go again ....
"It is not only the same in words, but the same in meaning, and delegates the same powers to the government, and reserves and secures the same rights and privileges to the citizen; and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day." STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA v. U S, 199 U.S. 437 (1905), citing Mr. Chief Justice Taney in Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393, 426, 15 L. ed. 691, 709