http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33837.pdf
One of the news letters I receive is from Secrecy News which provides access to various articles and reports which the public does not have general access to. One of which is CRS reports which are prepared for congress. CRS stands for Congressional Research Service Reports. These are analytic reports prepared for congress on topics they wish further information.
The report I provided a link to goes over the question of how much authority each branch(executive and legislative) has with regard to the United States military operations. It provides historic examples of each branch’s power and references court case’s in these examples.
Truthfully, this goes against what I thought. I thought the executive branch had more authority, but based on analysis of history and the laws as shown in this report. I no longer think this is the case.
Unlike some people on this forum, I can both read and post opposing articles on what I believe or believed. And I try to do with consistency when I find an authoritative source. I also think some people on this forum should expand their reading references to include articles such as this, which for the most part are pretty unbiased.
This article is good reading. If you get nothing else out of it, you should see that this has been an ongoing argument between the two branch’s since the very early 1800’s and is not unique to today. I may have lost the argument of presidential authority based on this article, but I still can rightfully claim that nothing new is occurring today that hasn’t occurred throughout the history of the United States including actions by our founding fathers.
Dan
lol, I had to get at least one dig in there now didn’t I?