With all the Bush administration yelping and howling about Congress "micromanaging" the war against Iraq, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit the Constitutional powers of the Congress. Below is the relevant section, which speaks for itself.
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8
The Congress shall have Power:
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress....
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You know I am not going to post the entire Declaration of Independence on here, but I would like to insert a couple of fragments from it and I'll post a link to the entire document so it can be read in it's entirety...what you'll read is amazingly familiar...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
And if you go on to read what the colonies were holding the British Government accountable for, you'll find a lot of things in common with what is going on now. We are living under the power of a tyrant just as they were.
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Corey
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