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That is a cop out and giving away powers to someone else is not the same as declaring it yourself. Constitutionally congress has to declare war, they would need an amendment to give that power away.
Agreed. It was a dodge. That way they couldn't be held responsible if the public didn't like it.
But, who is surprised? Congress decided to delegate vast amounts of law-making to regulatory agencies. Delegating war power is right in line with that. Natural progression. Too easy to predict. Not unlike letting lobbyists and special interests write the laws they do pretend* to vote on. If congress isn't even writing the bills, it comes as no surprise they don't even read them. Natural progression, you see. It was entirely predictable that one day a Speaker of the House would say, "We've got to pass this [Obamacare] bill so we can find out what's in it."
*I say pretend because you can't really vote on a bill you haven't read. In my opinion, every un-read vote cast is null and void. I got five dollars that says almost every bill passed since about 1972 is probably illegitimate just on this point alone. Plain and simple, most of the federal laws have no legitimacy.
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