If this was the founding precedent, the deepest argument for the irrelevancy of the declaration of war is to be found in nuclear weapons.
In the case of war, declaration means authorizing the president to engage in hostilities.
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However, rather than returning to the constitutional method of the Declaration of War, which can be given after the commencement of war if necessary (consider World War II) Congress chose to bypass declarations of war in favor of resolutions allowing wars.
The first season opens with the sinking of the Titanic, in 1912, and ends with the declaration of war against Germany.
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After Ireland became free from the British in 1922 (when the War of Independence resulted in the declaration of the Irish Free State), the government, with the support of the Catholic Church, passed the Censorship of Film Act.
The environmentalist George Monbiot called the appointments a " declaration of war on the environment" by the prime minister, and there's been plentiful speculation in the media on the ministers' attitudes on this key environmental issue.
The murder of two within ten days looks to Brazilians like a declaration of war against the state by organised crime.
For this reason, rather than ask for a declaration, he used all the prior precedents to simply go to war without a declaration.
The two sides are to push for a declaration of the ending of the Korean War in cooperation with neighboring nations.
But Syria says it was the second Israeli airstrike in three days, and Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad told CNN the attack was a declaration of war by Israel.
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In 1812, the American Congress approved a declaration of war on Great Britain over trade restrictions.
It was not until World War I, when British forces were at the gates of Jerusalem, in November, 1917, that the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, anxious for Jewish support in the war, issued his epic yet ambiguous Declaration.
When the declaration was drafted, the cold war had already begun to blight post-war hopes that international co-operation would prevail over great-power rivalry.
But the summit's final declaration calls instead for port security to be tightened as part of the ongoing war against terrorism.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Pennsylvanian who signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote that the war was only the first step in the Revolution's destiny to transform America and the world.
Ambassador Bolton dismissed North Korea's threats that U.N. sanctions would be a declaration of war, saying that the consensus opinion holds that Pyongyang has hurt its standing with its tests and its public statements.
Predictably, it triggered a new declaration by the Mexican government of a new war on drugs.
The attacks triggered Britain and France's declaration of war against Germany two days later.
It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.
After surviving the war, Hessel worked as a French diplomat at the UN, where he was involved in compiling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You know the interesting thing is when people sign a declaration of war they understand that it's going to be long and arduous and day after day they have to put an effort into it.
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President Barack Obama failed to get a congressional declaration of war, as required by the Constitution.
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He should then summon the congressional leadership as the representatives of the American people and their more junior colleagues to receive a highly classified briefing on the plan and to secure their support for a declaration of war, to be debated and adopted as soon as practicable.
Tomorrow, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Czech Foreign Minister Josef Zieleniec are scheduled to initial a possibly portentous bilateral declaration dealing with an issue that set the stage for World War II.
Sudan has made no formal declaration of war, but analysts say Mr Kiir is clearly escalating the war of words.
The problem here was that it was not clear that had he asked for a formal declaration of war he would have gotten one.
In 1988 the prime ministers of Turkey and Greece met at Davos and signed a declaration that may have averted a war.
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