Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Colonel Kangaroo

Thomas Jefferson sent ships to fight the Barbary pirates without a declaration of war.


2 posted on 04/12/2018 7:40:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: marktwain
Congress gave Jefferson the authority to attack the Barbary states if they declared war first which Tripoli did. It wasn't an open-ended authorization to attack nations which had not attacked us nor declared war against us.
5 posted on 04/12/2018 7:46:59 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

Pirates


11 posted on 04/12/2018 8:04:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson