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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:51:27 -0400
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- From: The Integral Differential <DEMON@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Reagan's legacy and the politics of the SC
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- >On what grounds is the War Powers Act unconstitutional? Without a ruling
- >saying such from the SC, what do you base your assertion upon? VMS
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- Should have slipped an (IMO) in there. Of course now that Jay is back
- I can't use channeling as an excuse :).
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- IMO, the WPA is unconstitutional because it interferes with the CinC
- role of the president. Analogous to a legislative veto of the prez's CinC
- powers. Since the prez is the *the* CinC, there are no constitutionally
- correct :) ways to overrule him in that arena.
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- The last thing we need is someone like Pat Schroeder trying to judge
- military strategy.
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- (She of "small carriers" ideas. As in the kind of carrier that proved
- ineffective in fleet defense against a third world power in the Falklands.)
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- Brett'
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