A Stark Lesson About the President’s War Powers

From the desk of… A stark lesson about the president’s war powers

War is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional values and procedures pertinent to it is problematic. This has been made more so, and more urgent, by the untethering of the modern presidency from restraints other than the occupant’s constitutional conscience. During the Revolutionary War and until the Constitution’s ratification in 1788, the national government had no distin…

George F. Will: A stark lesson about the president’s war powers

WAR is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional values and procedures pertinent to it is problematic. This has been made more so, and more urgent, by the untethering of the modern…