I have no respect for FDR- so- I 'swiped' his phrase from the speech about the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor...and used it for the
attack and win against the Constitutional Sovereignty of the US-by getting us in the US into the debauched "United" Nations>>>
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/17089-december-4-1945-the-day-the-senate-surrendered-our-sovereignty
Three paragraphs from the wonderful article via the link-:>>>
"While the proposed Constitution was still before the states for
ratification, another of the Framers, Alexander Hamilton, wrote in
The Federalist, no. 69
that the president's authority as commander-in-chief of the army and
navy would be considerably inferior to that of the British monarch. "It
would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of
the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the
Confederacy," Hamilton wrote, "while that of the British king extends to
the
declaring of war and to the
raising and
regulating of fleets and armies — all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature."
Congress last issued a formal declaration of war in December of 1941,
when the United States entered World War II. President Truman's
commitment of American forces to a United Nations "
police action"
in Korea started the nation down the road of a seemingly endless series
of undeclared wars in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia, Somalia,
Iraq (twice), Libya, and Afghanistan and other places where our armed
forces have been sent to fight and often to engage in the kind of
"nation-building" ill-suited to a military mission and which our
Constitution in no way authorizes.
We have seen in recent years an erosion of constitutional liberties
that has accompanied the ever-expanding role of America as the world's
policeman. The ultra-secret National Security Agency continues to
intercept our phone calls and e-mails, while Congress annually
authorizes the president to detain
terror suspects, including American citizens, indefinitely, without
charge or trial. Meanwhile the trillions of dollars of war debt we have
accumulated in Iran and Afghanistan pose an economic threat to our
nation's security."
