Unchecked presidential wars.

From: University of Pennsylvania Law Review | Date: May 1, 2000| Author: Fisher, Louis | Copyright information

With studied care and deliberation, the Framers of the Constitution created a structure to prevent presidential wars. They specifically rejected the British model that allowed the monarch to take the country to war and to exercise exclusive control over foreign policy. Making fundamental judgments about representative government, popular control, and human nature, they placed the power of war and peace with the legislative branch and divided foreign policy between the President and ...

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