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The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking: The Enduring Debate
David Gray Adler examines the debate surrounding the critical constitutional issue of the power to decide on war. He argues that the evidence indisputably shows that the drafters of the Constitution vested the authority to initiate hostilities, short of and including war, solely and exclusively in Congress and gave the president only the power to repel invasions.

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