The Cost of America’s Wars Is More than Monetary
For all practical purposes, America has been fighting foreign wars for more than a century. The monetary cost alone is extraordinary.
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Federal Overreach and American Foreign Policy Go Hand-In-Hand
The key is and always has been nullification.
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War: A Tool For Politicians to Centralize Power
Karp’s The Politics of War has a story to tell: The political class uses war to centralize power and change culture.
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War Presidents to the Left; War Presidents to the Right.
The history of American Presidents is the centralization of power in the Executive under the veiled threat of imminent danger.
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War Abroad Means More Government at Home
the warfare state and the welfare state both have the same end. They concentrate power in the central government.
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The Cancerous Effect of Big Government: How Massive Defense Budgets Drive Unconstitutional Domestic Programs
In the United States today, we have bipartisan agreement when it comes to spending money and violating the Constitution.
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Another Pointless War?
As we watch the collapsing government in Baghdad surrounded by a highly disciplined and serious force of Sunni-oriented fighters that has taken control of the most populous third of the country, we must, in John Adams’ words, resist the temptation to slay the world’s monsters.
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War and the Constitution: Declare vs Wage
Congress has the power to determine IF the country will wage offensive war and against WHOM. Once that decision is made by the Congress, the President is in charge of waging that war.
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What is a “War” (or, Is that a War You Are Declaring?)
Contrary to some presidential claims, eighteenth-century sources show that “war” had a broad meaning, encompassing most sovereign uses of force against another sovereign or quasi-sovereign entity.
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Syria AUMF: It’s Not a Step in the Right Direction
This so-called constitutional process proposed by the Obama administration is wildly unconstitutional, at best. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t understand the Constitutional underpinnings of congressional and executive war powers, so it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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The Constitution is quite clear on war power. Congress has the power to determine IF the country will wage offensive war and against WHOM. Once that decision is made by the Congress, the President is in charge of waging that war.
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