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Comment by verzali

5 days ago

> The Congress shall have Power...

> To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

> To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

> To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

> To provide and maintain a Navy;

> To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

> To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

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Ancapistani  5 days ago

I’m quite familiar.

My point is that —- regardless of appropriateness —- this is about as far from “unprecedented” as can be imagined.

Congress didn’t declare ware on Syria, or Iraq, or Yemen, or Somalia, or any number of other African countries when the US attacked them during the Biden administration.

  • verzali  5 days ago

    So the constitution is worthless then?

    • Ancapistani  5 days ago

      That’s not what I was saying, but I didn’t argue when smarter men than I said exactly that:

          But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
    - Lysander Spooner

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