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I don't see anything here that would give any POTUS the right/power to launch a strike against North Korea. The folks in Congress need to get their act together and start doing their job. They can run for re-election some other time.
declaration of war
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Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4E. Copyright © 2007 by William C. Burton. Used with permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DECLARATION OF WAR. An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between the UnitedStates and some other nation.
2. This power is vested in congress by the constitution, art. 1, s. 8. There is no form or ceremony necessary, except thepassage of the act. A manifesto, stating the causes of the war, is usually published, but war exists as soon as the act takeseffect. It was formerly usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration communicated to the enemy, and to send a herald todemand satisfaction. Potter, Antiquities of Greece, b. 3, c. 7; Dig. 49, 15, 24. But that is not the practice of modern times. Insome countries, as England, the, power of declaring war is vested in the king, but he has no power to raise men or money tocarry it on, which renders the right almost nugatory.
4. The public proclamation of the government of a state, by which it declares itself to be at war with a foreign power, whichis named, and which forbids all and every one to aid or assist the common enemy, is also called a declaration of war.
I don't see anything here that would give any POTUS the right/power to launch a strike against North Korea. The folks in Congress need to get their act together and start doing their job. They can run for re-election some other time.
declaration of war
Also found in: Acronyms, Wikipedia.
See: outbreak
Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4E. Copyright © 2007 by William C. Burton. Used with permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DECLARATION OF WAR. An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between the UnitedStates and some other nation.
2. This power is vested in congress by the constitution, art. 1, s. 8. There is no form or ceremony necessary, except thepassage of the act. A manifesto, stating the causes of the war, is usually published, but war exists as soon as the act takeseffect. It was formerly usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration communicated to the enemy, and to send a herald todemand satisfaction. Potter, Antiquities of Greece, b. 3, c. 7; Dig. 49, 15, 24. But that is not the practice of modern times. Insome countries, as England, the, power of declaring war is vested in the king, but he has no power to raise men or money tocarry it on, which renders the right almost nugatory.
4. The public proclamation of the government of a state, by which it declares itself to be at war with a foreign power, whichis named, and which forbids all and every one to aid or assist the common enemy, is also called a declaration of war.
