Mediachannel:Congress must be more assertive in exercising its duties

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WAR POWERS: DECIDING TO USE FORCE ABROAD

The process of authorizing the decision to go to war is reexamined in a new report by a bipartisan commission which generally concludes that Congress must be more assertive in exercising its constitutionally mandated role.

"Congress must perform its constitutional duty to reach a deliberate and transparent collective judgment about initiating the use of force abroad except when force is used for a limited range of defensive purposes."

See "Deciding to Use Force Abroad: War Powers in a System of Checks and Balances," The Constitution Project, June 29, 2005:

www.constitutionproject.org <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=28488094&url_num=5&url=http://www.constitutionproject.org/wp/WarPowers_final.pdf>