War: A Tool For Politicians to Centralize Power
War is a vehicle for federal power. Wars and threats of war create opportunities for the federal government to centralize military, economic, and political authority. This is clearly laid out in Walter Karp’s absorbing book The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars...
Will Latest Foreign Policy Executive Orders Drive the Country to More War?
In the wee hours of the morning on Nov 9, 2016, as the returns from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania indicated a Trump victory, a wave of shock crashed over American politics. Then there was a second wave of astonishment in the wake that election night victory: the...
James Madison on the Constitution and War Powers
James Madison, excerpted from “Political Observations,” April 20, 1795 in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, Volume IV, page 491. Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every...