And this,said the southern declaration, would lead to bitter hostility and war between North and South.

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Indiana representative Mike Pence called a proposal by the Democratic party to protect the environment by putting a limit on greenhouse gases " an economic declaration of war."

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If this was the founding precedent, the deepest argument for the irrelevancy of the declaration of war is to be found in nuclear weapons.

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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.

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