Friday, 24 June 2011

New Rules for Declaring War

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Obama has exceeded the 90-day period to receive retroactive authorization from Congress.But things are not so simple. No president should accept — and no president from Nixon on has accepted — the constitutionality of the WPR, passed unilaterally by Congress over a presidential veto. On the other hand, every president should have the constitutional decency to get some congressional approval when he takes the country to war.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/24/new_rules_for_declaring_war_258062.html

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