Tom Woods Smacks Down Mark Levin on War Powers by Thomas R. Eddlem

Tom Woods Smacks Down Mark Levin on War Powers

by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. has taken syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (picture inset) to task for claiming the President can constitutionally bring the nation to war without the permission of Congress.
Woods argued that Congress has the exclusive power under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution to declare war and to make rules for the military. Levin contended that Woods' argument was "utter nonsense." "He refutes nothing I said," Woods concluded in a March 28 column on LewRockwell.com, "and then declares himself the winner."
The Internet exchange began after Levin, a lawyer and former Justice Department official, assailed Representative Ron Paul for his antiwar stance on the U.S. attack on Libya on his radio show March 25:

I want to repeat this for those out there who write stupid stuff and are a little dense because they're advancing a dogma rather than an honest assessment of what our history is. You can see some of these morons on television too. The language was originally "Congress shall make war." The framers rejected that. And instead replaced "make" with "declare." The president of the United States, well, they made him the commander-in-chief. Now why do you think they did those two things? Out of basic logic. They knew it was a dangerous world – hell they've been in a revolution. And by the way, after the revolution and establishment of our government it wasn't clear still that it would survive given all the threats that we faced.

Levin went on to claim that the President can bring the United States government to war without.........

http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem45.1.html
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