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If the United States Is Going to War With Venezuela...

KenH

KenH

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Salty said:
The first military action taken without declaring war was in 1798 by President Adams
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Reminds me of the Israelites after they left Egypt - it didn't take long for them to start bellyaching and complaining. Fallen man is the same today as in the late 1700s as in the book of Exodus as in the book of Genesis - failing to live up to even the most basic standards of conduct.
 
KenH

KenH

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Salty said:
BUT it does not State that Congress MUST declare war!
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That is not the only mistake they made in writing the Constitution. For instance, another one is that the preamble starts "We the People", but it should have started "We the States". It was the States who created the federal government.

Folks like Patrick Henry and other anti-federalists have been proven correct in arguing against leaving the Articles of Confederation of 1781 and adopting a new Constitution.
 
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Charlie24

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KenH said:
Concerns over a president getting the United States involved in a war outside of the constraints of the Constitution did not start when Donald Trump became president.



That is a horrible position for the United States to be in. The framers of the Constitution did not make provision for political parties in the construction of the Constitution, much less expecting political parties to be a check on the exercise of power by the executive branch(that was to be accomplished by each of the three branches fighting to keep the other branches out of their business); a problem which has become much worse during the 21st century when a political party of the same party as the president has control of the Congress, as then the Congress pretty much is just a rubber stamp for the president.
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Well, Ken, sounds like you need to run for Congress and fix all these problems being that you're so worried about it.

Me, I cast my vote and render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
 
Salty

Salty

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KenH said:
That is not the only mistake they made in writing the Constitution. For instance, another one is that the preamble starts "We the People", but it should have started "We the States". It was the States who created the federal government.

Folks like Patrick Henry and other anti-federalists have been proven correct in arguing against leaving the Articles of Confederation of 1781 and adopting a new Constitution.
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Why replace the Articles of Confederation
 
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