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March 21 — Until this week, the president’s personal authority to use America’s military might was subject to two opposite historical trends. On the one hand, there is the biggest scandal in constitutional law: the gradual disappearance of the congressional Declaration of War. Has there ever been a war more suited to a formal declaration — started more deliberately, more publicly, with less urgency and at more leisure — than the U.S. war on Iraq?
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March 21 — Until this week, the president’s personal authority to use America’s military might was subject to two opposite historical trends. On the one hand, there is the biggest scandal in constitutional law: the gradual disappearance of the congressional Declaration of War. Has there ever been a war more suited to a formal declaration — started more deliberately, more publicly, with less urgency and at more leisure — than the U.S. war on Iraq?
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