So you, you know, just to start 250 years ago, and I promise we'll be concise here, but to start 250 years ago, this whole conversation emerges from the fact that The Constitution vests in the Congress the power to declare war unambiguously. And if you go back and read the Federalist Papers in Madison and Monroe, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, Congress has the right to declare war, but under the Constitution, the president is commander in chief of the armed forces, right? (01:06–01:13)
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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the clear authority to declare war.
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