Defend the Guard: A Constitutional Check on Unrestricted War Powers
Presidential administrations come and go but the war machine churns relentlessly on. โDefend the Guardโ legislation can throw a monkey wrench in its cogs. Defend the Guard is a state-level bill that would stop the deployment of a stateโs National Guard units unless...
War and the Constitution
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in...
Little Known Episode in U.S. History Explains Executive War Powers
Within five years of the publishing ofย The Federalistย papers (and four years of the ratification by the states of the Constitution), the co-authors of those seminal and influential essays on American political theory and constitutional interpretation were back at...