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28th Amendment

Article One of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive right to declare war. The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to require the president (namely Trump) to defer to Congress before taking any belligerent actions toward a country like Iran ... and 3 Republicans, including Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida voted with the Democrats.

Now I can understand why loyal Republicans, including Gaetz and Senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul, would jealously guard the powers given to Congress by the Constitution ... and I sympathize with them. However, we need to be more realistic about this Constitutional power.

The difference, dear reader, boils down to timing. When the Constitution was written, wars tended to develop slowly ... over weeks and maybe months. Today, wars are far more precipitous and can develop over hours and minutes ... soon to be seconds and microseconds ... not enough time for the House to debate any needed war resolution. Pragmatism rears its ugly head.

Therefore, rather than tying the executive branch’s hands when it comes to war powers, it seems rational to amend our Constitution to acknowledge this foreshortening of how our president must react in real time to kinetic threats. I won’t suggest the language of this 28th Amendment here ... after all that is why we elect “lawmakers.” No?

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