Where in the United States of America's Constitution does it say United Nations?
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8 The Congress shall have Power: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9 The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. ARTICLE II, SECTION 2 The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States.... He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur.... The use of Military forces in hostilities is by definition WAR. I looked through the US Constitution and there is no such thing as "Police Action". Police action is a term used by Liberal Presidents that got us (the USA) in Korea and Vietnam and now Libya.
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It does not of course.
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Wow, conservatism truly is a mental handicap.
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it doesn't..but when has that stopped us in the past
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It doesn't say I can buy a car either, but that was an agreement I made with the dealer.
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Nowhere - and the US government is only given the powers in the Constitution. International law does NOT supersede the Constitution. If Obama signs a treaty that contradicts the Constitution, then that treaty would be invalid - because the people of the US would not have given the government the power to sign it.
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The UN is a treaty between many countries. The Senate approved that treaty in 1945.
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Libyan intervention isn't a war,it's a police action.
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Are you a troll? Seriously? The United States relationship with the UN is by treaty, which the President signs and Senate affirms. Please tell me you're joking.
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When Ronald Regan attacked Qaddafiby bombing it wasnt war now Obama is doing the same thing put aside your racism and treat him the same as a republican president
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Yeah!!! And I want all that money back from that unconstitutional NASA thingy.
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Call and write your congressman/woman and your 2 senators and demand this War be minus the US. Let those two renown warriors France and Italy carry the day, they've no stomach, France iwill use French Foreign Legion and Italy will fold in a NY Minute. This is a planned debacle to only lower the image in the rest of the world's eyes.
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Nowhere. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves just knowing that we're part of an organization like that.
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no where
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Perhaps you're thinking there was a Russian on the committee, (edit: that created the USA Constitution). edit: Actually, the USA agreed to the standards when they helped create them.
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sigh. You answered your own question. Article II, Section 2: "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur...." The United Nations treaty was ratified by the US Senate on December 4th, 1945. Here a bit of the Constitution you left out: Article VI: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land;" That make the UN treaty on-par with the rest of the Constitution. But onto the power of Congress to declare war. We haven't declared war on anyone since June 5th, 1942. Yet we've managed to fight several wars since. Simply put, Congress doesn't have the power to stop the President from sending troops into battle except through cutting off spending, and it's hard to do that when there are soldiers on the ground. So Congress passed (over Nixon's veto) The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541รข€“1548). This requires the President to notify Congress of any military action within 48 hours after its commencement. The President then has 60 days plus a 30 day withdrawal period to either get Congressional approval or to remove the forces prior to the deadline. Obama can have the Navy pound Libya for 59 days then order the fleet out, and never have to mention it to Congress. Perfectly legal.
