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---------------------Reply to mail dated 24-MAR-1986 20:56---------------------


>Has it really been *that* long since Vietnam???
> 
>This was a big-time subject during 'Nam; Congress debated it at
>length, and eventually passed a law limiting the President's
>authority to wage war without Congressional consent.  If my memory
>serves me (memory's the first thing to go when you get old), it
>was called the War Powers Act.  Check it out.
>-- 
>Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {elrond,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug

The whole point is that the law maybe unconstitutional.  That is why I 
brought it up.

        Brian Mahoney