Washington doesn't get that democracy matters
Congress and the President
n practice, Congress's power to declare war is little more than a nullity. War financing is where the constitutional rubber meets the road. It's true that war declarations were far more regularly invoked before the last half century. But anyone who doubts that the framers saw the power to finance or not to finance as the Congress's real power need only familiarize themselves wtih English constitutional history of the 17th and 18th century which was the ... Full Story »
Posted by Joseph Duemer
