By Bruce Ackerman
ForeignPolicy.com
Published: March 24, 2011
In taking the country into a war with Libya, Barack Obama's administration is breaking new ground in its construction of an imperial presidency -- an executive who increasingly acts independently of Congress at home and abroad. Obtaining a U.N. Security Council resolution has legitimated U.S. bombing raids under international law. But the U.N. Charter is not a substitute for the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress, not the president, the power "to declare war."
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March 31, 2011
Obama’s Unconstitutional War
Obama’s Unconstitutional War
