No Ramparts Remain: The Executive’s Illegal Seizure of War Powers
In an age where constitutional fidelity is as rare in Washington, D.C., as virtue was in Sodom, it is left to us, the unbending patriots still loyal to the parchment that founded this Republic, to hold accountable those who trample the chains that once bound the federal beast. Among the gravest of those violations is the president’s presumptuous usurpation of the war powers.
It matters not whether the president is named Trump or Truman, Biden or Bush — if he sends American sons to die on foreign soil, if he deploys bombers to drop ordnance on sovereign nations without a formal declaration of war from Congress, then he has violated the Constitution, betrayed the Founders, and done violence to the very liberty he purports to protect.
To understand the depth of this betrayal, we must first confront the historical revisionism embedded in the president’s own rhetoric. On August 21, 2017 at Fort Myer, President Trump rightly extolled the valor of the American military, calling them “a special class of heroes whose selflessness, courage, and resolve is unmatched in human history.”
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