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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 00:09:24 EST
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Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy

> The U. S. constitution does give Congress the sole power to declare war.
> It can be legitimately argued that undeclared wars such as Korea and Vietnam
> are unconstitutional. This has no bearing on whether the U. S. is a democracy
> Bill Tanenbaum 

Why doesn't it have a bearing on whether the U. S. is a democracy?
  
The constitution gives congress the sole power to  declare war, in other words,
the constitution says that when a decision has to be made about waging war, the
democratic thing to do is to let the congress decide (That is if we assume that
the constitution is a correct implementation of a democratic system). By waging
a  war in which  the  congress  has been  ignored, the  president  has  made an 
undemocratic decision. This hurts the democracy, doesn't it? 
   
   Farzin Mokhtarian
      
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