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Posted By populist 1 year, 2 months ago in News

“As the executive cannot decide the question of war on the affirmative side, neither ought it to do so on the negative side, by preventing the competent body from deliberating on the question.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
- James Madison

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    ppiittuu1 year, 2 months ago

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    interesting. but it depends on what one means by "war," doesn't it...

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      lloydm651 year, 2 months ago

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      I wonder what the framer's would have wrote ,if they knew that later on the house,and senate would be filled with skirts,and girlie men,and our enemies would have more sway with them than the president.Kind of hard to run a country when the congress keeps running back to sixtys ,sticking their heads in the sand , and trying to elect a younger version of George McGovern.

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