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August 29, 2013
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Here's a good piece from David Freddoso, who'll be our podcast guest this week, on congressional authority over declarations of war.
This quote from Madison seems particularly relevant:
In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department. Beside the objection to such a mixture to heterogeneous powers, the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man…
... particularly for as small a man as the current occupant of the White House.