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Who Gets to Decide When We Go to War?

Too Easy

The Constitution’s framers went to considerable trouble to insure that it would be hard to take the country to war. Two centuries later, it’s easier than ever. What happened?

Deborah Pearlstein
Deborah Pearlstein
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Deborah Pearlstein

Deborah Pearlstein

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