The point is, the Founders vested the power to declare in Congress because they feared presidents would do precisely what they are doing today — regularly taking the nation into overseas conflicts that have only the most tangential interest to the security of the United States. The result has been hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed, hundreds of billions of dollars squandered, numerous civil liberties lost, and a host of government bureaucracies spawned. In short, even if the Constitution was not clear, the issue of war and peace is too important to leave to the president. “International
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