Congress holds the power to declare war. As a result, the President cannot declare war without their approval.
However, as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, Presidents have sent troops to battle without an official war declaration (which happened in Vietnam and Korea).
Both the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the twenty-second amendment were created to limit the power of the president. The war power resolution was passed over the veto of President Nixon to provide procedures for Congress to participate in decisions to send U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities, and the Twenty-Second Amendment was one of the recommendations to the U.S. Congress by the Hoover Commission, created by President Harry S. Truman, to reorganize and reform the federal government in 1947, setting a two terms limit for presidential candidates, a total of eight years.
<span>Leon Botstein suggests that the American high school is obsolete and should be abolished because of the artificial intensity of a world defined by insiders and outsiders, in which the insiders hold sway because of superficial definitions of good looks and attractiveness, popularity and sports prowess.</span>
They were not able to vote because they did not have any electors to represent them.
