Add to ORKGWhen the Constitutional Convention was debating allocation of the war power within the federal government George Mason of Virginia said that he was against giving the power of war to the Executive, because not safely to be trusted with it; or to the Senate, because not so constructed as to be entitled to it. He was for clogging rather than facilitating war; but for facilitating peace. Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, later the third Chief Justice of the United States, expressed the same thought. It should be more easy to get out of war, said Ellsworth, than into it
This Article explores the eighteenth-century use of the phrase declare war, with the goal of shedd...
I have long believed two things about constitutional war powers, which my reading of Noah Feldman’s ...
The Bush Administration argues that the Commander in Chief has exclusive power to decide what milita...
When the Constitutional Convention was debating allocation of the war power within the federal gover...
Almost without discussion, and essentially without opposition, the Framers and Ratifiers of the Unit...
A subject of warm debate in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was wh...
This Response to Professor Ramsey\u27s pro-Congress view of the war powers debate presents a complet...
By conferring on the President the title of commander in chief, the Constitution created an awkwar...
Existing legal scholarship about constitutional war powers focuses overwhelmingly on the President\u...
Even before the framing of the Constitution, the Framers feared an executive power that would grow t...
Before the United States Constitution was ratified there was much debate about what war powers the e...
When crafting the United States Constitution, America’s Founders carefully prescribed an institution...
The U.S. Constitution vests the president with “executive power” and provides that “The President sh...
The division of war powers between Congress and the President has never been free of ambiguity or te...
The Bush Administration argues that the Commander in Chief has exclusive power to decide what milita...
This Article explores the eighteenth-century use of the phrase declare war, with the goal of shedd...
I have long believed two things about constitutional war powers, which my reading of Noah Feldman’s ...
The Bush Administration argues that the Commander in Chief has exclusive power to decide what milita...
When the Constitutional Convention was debating allocation of the war power within the federal gover...
Almost without discussion, and essentially without opposition, the Framers and Ratifiers of the Unit...
A subject of warm debate in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was wh...
This Response to Professor Ramsey\u27s pro-Congress view of the war powers debate presents a complet...
By conferring on the President the title of commander in chief, the Constitution created an awkwar...
Existing legal scholarship about constitutional war powers focuses overwhelmingly on the President\u...
Even before the framing of the Constitution, the Framers feared an executive power that would grow t...
Before the United States Constitution was ratified there was much debate about what war powers the e...
When crafting the United States Constitution, America’s Founders carefully prescribed an institution...
The U.S. Constitution vests the president with “executive power” and provides that “The President sh...
The division of war powers between Congress and the President has never been free of ambiguity or te...
The Bush Administration argues that the Commander in Chief has exclusive power to decide what milita...
This Article explores the eighteenth-century use of the phrase declare war, with the goal of shedd...
I have long believed two things about constitutional war powers, which my reading of Noah Feldman’s ...
The Bush Administration argues that the Commander in Chief has exclusive power to decide what milita...