THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jude Russo) - Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government?
A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. The post Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Politics Could an Iran War Commission Revive Constitutional Government? A new proposal shows a politically viable step toward restoring congressional war powers. Photo by Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images Is it politically possible for Congress to reassert its constitutional war powers? What would it take? Let’s quickly analyze why congressional war powers have become so degraded. The vast expansion of American international commitments following the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War necessarily tended to encourage delegation of war powers to…Open