Presidential War Powers 
.... Presidential
War Powers Surprise
Congress The United States is now well entrenched in attempting to aid the United Nations forces in Bosnia bring that region's ....
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White House vs Congress
.... reactively. This allowed US presidents to argue that they could not await the time-consuming process of having
Congress declare
war. Their ....
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Changes in Congress
.... The public debate over the Gulf
War in
Congress --- before the
war actually began --- was certainly a good thing for democracy in the United States in general ....
(2084
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Public Opinion & Persian Gulf War
.... Many US Presidents have claimed that they, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, have the authority to commit troops to
war, and
Congress has usually gone ....
(2373
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Agenda Identification: The War in Iraq
.... Hours before the
war began, the president formally notified
Congress of his decision, stating that he had exhausted peaceful means to disarm Iraq. ....
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US involvement in the Viet Nam War
.... to support the non-communist "domino" of South Viet Nam?, or, was it worth presidential "saving of face" to continue an unpopular
war?),
congress cut off aid ....
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THE CONGRESSIONAL VOTE FOR WAR WITH IRAQ
.... Iraq
war resolution intended to support; what political instruments did the Bush Administration employ in its effort to move the measure through
Congress, and ....
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Political Science Issues
.... When presidential actions are seen as successful, as in the Gulf
War,
Congress becomes more deferential to presidents. Fisher, Louis (2004). Presidential Wars. ....
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Powers of the Executive in Times of War
.... Be that as it may, the past 50 or more years present a historical movement away from reliance on a formal declaration of
war by
Congress as a necessary ....
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Second Continental Congress
.... As a catalyst for future events, upon winning the Revolutionary
War an extension of the Second Continental
Congress was the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ....
(1937
8
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Civil War Financing
....
Congress passed a variety of tax legislation during the
war, including the Stamp Tax on legal, business, and financial instruments. ....
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Issue of Brown v. Board of Education
.... After the Civil
War,
Congress sought to ensure the rights of freed slaves by passing three amendments to the US Constitution: the Thirteenth, which ended ....
(1573
6
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Presidential usurpations of military power
.... Presidential
War Powers Surprise
Congress The United States is now well entrenched in attempting to aid the United Nations forces in Bosnia bring that region's ....
(1599
6
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Roosevelt War Conferences
.... However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in favor of American involvement in the
war but he faced staunch opposition among members of
Congress and there ....
(937
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Legacy of Jim Crow Laws
.... After the Civil
War,
Congress passed (and the states ratified) three amendments to the US Constitution: the thirteenth, which ended slavery; the fourteenth ....
(1768
7
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Veterans Benefits
.... than a quarter-million Union soldiers received gunshot wounds-created a large population of
war-disabled veterans and forced the postwar
Congress to establish ....
(2943
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The Emancipation Proclmation
.... This fact is expressed in Paludan's statement regarding the final years of the
war: "
Congress and Lincoln might exchange hot words, but the party stood as one ....
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The Vietnam War
.... Lyndon Johnson succeeded in getting almost unlimited authority to wage
war in Vietnam from the
Congress via the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; this legislation ....
(1808
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US Views of the Cold War
.... that he did not believe he could obtain the consent of the United States
Congress to keep United States troops in Europe more than two years after the
war. ....
(2241
9
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Events That Led to the Civil War
.... mid to late 1850s, the advent of the civil
war became inevitable .... of the southern slave population was counted in computing southern representation in
Congress. ....
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American Indian Tribes in the Civil War
.... After the
war, the completion of the transcontinental railroad authorized by
Congress in 1862 facilitated an even more phenomenal expansion on the Great Plains ....
(2515
10
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US Involvement in the Vietnam War
.... Power shifted during the 1970s to
Congress and away from the President whose conduct of foreign policy was somewhat handicapped by the
War Powers Act and other ....
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11
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Causes of Civil War
.... over an attempt of the South Carolina legislature to nullify a tariff enacted by
Congress. .... acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican
War of 1848 ....
(2011
8
)
The Civil War and The North & South
.... Throughout the years of the 19th Century before the Civil
War, as the North .... In 1854,
Congress passed the Kansas Nebraska Act that wiped out the old Missouri ....
(1930
8
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Decade of the 1970s
.... especially military aid. The
war was cited as unpopular and as dominating
Congress, the budget, and the election. The approaches being ....
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Economic Issues Related to War in US History
.... 1812 [
Congress] imposed a sixty day embargo, specifically to give American shipowners time to get their vessels to port before they became prizes of
war" (p. 42 ....
(2243
9
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Gulf War Syndrome
.... is also ample evidence that there is such a thing as Gulf
War Syndrome and .... As
Congress continues to pressure the military for a change in attitude, however, an ....
(1194
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US National Security Processes
.... costly military engagements and one short engagement involving the use of massive US conventional force, none of which was formally declared a
war by
Congress. ....
(5484
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Jewish Contributions in the America Civil War
.... disinclined to participate in a "rich man's
war." The opposition of German and Irish Catholics to the various
war measures passed by
Congress, especially the ....
(4967
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Civil War and Reconstruction
.... Reconstruction. The debates in
Congress over Reconstruction were almost as bitter and divisive as those over the Civil
War had been. Andrew ....
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