From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Dec 31 2002 - 08:40:25 MST
In a message dated 12/30/2002 6:22:53 PM Central Standard Time,
neptune@mars.superlink.net writes: I'm not so sure about that, BUT there was
an actual declaration of war back then, which kind of made these things
finite. (I'm not praising the US government or the FDR administration back
then either. They were pretty much out for an end run around constitutional
limits to government power.
I don't know. I have read that section of the Constitution and while I don't
remember it clearly I am pretty sure there is no precise set of procedures
for how Congress declares war -- I seem to remember that it just says that
Congress shall declare war. The Constitution also leaves the purse strings
in the hands of the Congress.
I listen pretty closely to the Congress after the 911 attack. I
believe they gave the President permission to attack and authorized him
spending the money. Is that a Declaration of War. I think so but I'll
listen to the Constitutional lawyers.
Ron h.
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