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War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View, Matthew C. Waxman Jan 2024

War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View, Matthew C. Waxman

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Debates about war powers focus too much on legal checks and on the President’s power to start wars. Congressional checks before and during crises work better than many reform-ists suppose, and there are ways to improve Congress’s political checking without substantial legal reform.