And you know this was not an illegal war based on terms of what the War Powers act is. He says based on war powers. This is not an illegal war. You say what? Well, John Fetterman knows better. Article 1 of the Constitution explicitly provides Congress with the authority to declare war. period, full stop. And the framers of the Constitution made that decision because they were concerned about kings throughout time getting their people into unnecessary wars, impoverishing them or imperiling their very well being by sending them off to a foreign conflict. (04:26–04:33)
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Asserts that the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war.
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