[G.Mason]

The Constitution of the United States of America

Article II [The Presidency]

Section 8. The Congress shall have power......... To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;......

[Alas Babylon!]

Bump for Auburn Alumni!

[Congressman Billybob]

Ooops for your cite. The power to declare war is in Article I that deals with Congress, not Article II that deals with the Presidency. Still, it is Section 8, clause 11, and you did quote it correctly.

Clinton repeatedly committed acts of war with our military, without seeking authority from Congress through a declaration. The first President Bush knew better than that. He asked Congress to act, and it did, before a shot was fired in the Gulf War.

I hope that this President Bush will follow his father's example, not the Clinton example. I hope he will respect the Constitution, and ask Congress to act officially (on House Joint Resolution 63, as amended), before the first shot is fired.

The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina

Click here for Billybob's latest, "The Engineering (and Law) of War."

Click here and go to "ALCU Watch" for a detailed legal discussion of how the US declares war, both historically and in this instance.