You know, our founding fathers discussed this extensively in the Constitutional Convention and in the Federalist Papers. From Hamilton to Jefferson, the whole spectrum, they all decided that The power to go to war was too important to place in the hands of one person. So they said the initiation or the declaration of war would be with Congress. It's important not only because of Venezuela and what can or may still occur down there, … (01:11–01:15)
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Asserts that the power to declare war should be with Congress, not the President.
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