Conflicts between Congress and the President over war powers have their origin in the United States Constitution. In 1973, Congr
ess passed the War Powers Resolution in an attempt to clarify the balance of powers between the two branches of government. Describe the primary constitutional conflict between Congress and the President over the decision to go to war.
According to the Constitution, Congress has the right to declare war (Article I, paragraph 8) and the President is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces (Article II, paragraph 2). It is therefore unclear to what extent the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the right to deploy armed forces in armed conflicts without Congress approval.
The background to the War Powers Resolution was the unclear constitutional situation regarding the use of armed forces in the Korean and Vietnam War. In the case of the Korean War, there was no formal declaration of war or Congress resolution to approve the operation. After a Vietnamese attack on an American speedboat in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, Congress passed a resolution that supported the use of armed forces in Vietnam. However, it was not a formal declaration of war. In 1973, the War powers resolution was passed by Congress with a two-thirds majority, after a veto by President Nixon. The aim was to ensure the future participation of the Congress in the use of armed forces.
There were several things that helped Ronald Reagan win the presidential election of 1980, but once of the biggest was appealing to racist white southerners.
the Chinese were pretty interested and impressed by Rome: Their kings are not permanent. They select and appoint the most worthy man. If there are unexpected calamities in the kingdom, such as frequent extraordinary winds or rains, he is unceremoniously rejected and replaced.
The rewritten Japanese constitution after World War II guaranteed "personal freedoms" for the Japanese, since the Allies did not want to create another environment in which the Japanese became aggressive.
