Entire US Senate to Meet With Top Trump Officials Over North Korea

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

That's a difference without a distinction.  Getting Congressional permission to send in armed forces is "declaring war", regardless of what the resolution calls it.  The point of that clause in the Constitution is for Congress to provide the necessary check and balance on presidential use of military force.

We'll agree to disagree but I think we can both agree that "declaring war" seems to be an optional thing for Presidents, and as such, is possibly the most pointless part of the Constitution.

Only way I could see it having teeth is if the opposite happened (Congress wanted to declare war but the President didn't).

[Cyber Liberty]

That's a difference without a distinction.  Getting Congressional permission to send in armed forces is "declaring war", regardless of what the resolution calls it.  The point of that clause in the Constitution is for Congress to provide the necessary check and balance on presidential use of military force.

Which was ignored by the last two Dem Preezies.

[libertybele]

Congress as a whole actually. Article 1, Section 8.
But technically it was already declared. We are under the Korean Armistice Agreement which would have to go back to the Senate for a change of status.

Thanks for the info!

[libertybele]

Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953):

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=85