The Constitution of the United States divides the war powers of the federal government between the Executive and Legislative branches: the President is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces (Article II, section 2), while Congress has the power to make declarations of war, and to raise and support the armed forces.The founding father did this to prevent the majority from ruling with an iron fist.
Technology booming era. robust economy.
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Pope Leo X issued a papal bull declaring the ideas presented by Martin Luther to be heretical. When Luther chose not to recant, Luther, who was a member of the Catholic clergy, was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Francisco Goya painted the Third of May 1808 with such graphic reality in order to show the horrors of war.
