Public Opinion & Persian Gulf War 
.... it). Thus a final consideration: for President Clinton, restoring
Congress's war power would be good, self interested politics. Why ....
(2373
9
)
Presidential War Powers
.... That same year,
Congress passed the
War Powers Resolution, designed to limit the president's ability to commit American troops on any long-term basis without ....
(1756
7
)
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 ....
(1456
6
)
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
8
)
Agenda Identification: The War in Iraq
.... him the power to invade Iraq if needed, thus skirting Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that grants only to
Congress, the authority to declare
war. ....
(249
1
)
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 ....
(826
3
)
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
)
Powers of the Executive in Times of War
.... Supreme Court decisions arising from the undeclared Quasi
War with France in 1798-1800 as support for the proposition that
Congress may authorize
war of any ....
(6519
26
)
Civil War Financing
....
Congress passed a variety of tax legislation during the
war, including the Stamp Tax on legal, business, and financial instruments. ....
(1159
5
)
Presidential usurpations of military power
.... That same year,
Congress passed the
War Powers Resolution, designed to limit the president's ability to commit American troops on any long-term basis without ....
(1599
6
)
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
4
)
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
)
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. ....
(1562
6
)
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
7
)
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
)
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 ....
(2729
11
)
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
)
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
)
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
5
)
Bush Administration & Iraq War
.... was used as an excuse to dramatically increase the military, and remember well how the administration deliberately deceived
Congress to expand a
war in which ....
(879
4
)
Vietnam War
.... Among these was allowing the Executive Branch of government to bypass
Congress and waging
war based upon the authority of the President. ....
(1215
5
)
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 ....
(1874
7
)
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
20
)
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 ....
(1898
8
)
The Women's War Memorial
.... for her service lower than that of most
war widows. Moreover, in an attempt to make the Congressional Medal more valuable,
Congress changed retroactively the ....
(1908
8
)
Jewish Contributions in the America Civil War Thi
.... 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
20
)
US Role in the Vietnam War This resear
.... disclosure of the facts to the
Congress. He later insisted somewhat disingenuously that the Tonkin Gulf resolutions authorized his escalation of the
war in 1965 ....
(3310
13
)
The Supreme Court in American History
.... In addition, it gave
Congress the power to regulate commercial activity throughout the .... Leading up to the Civil
War, the Court exercised restraint in asserting ....
(1449
6
)
Slavery & The Civil War
.... reason for the Civil
War, including the "Congressional Compromise," the "Wilmot Proviso," "Popular Sovereignty" and the view in the South that
Congress had no ....
(3725
15
)
