Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 18, 2011

Since Congress passed the UN Participation Act in December 1945, the U.S. Government has effectively operated under a standing declaration of war. Every president since Harry Truman has claimed the supposed authority to employ military force anywhere in the world in order to carry out our purported international obligations.

Occasionally, Congress has pretended to exercise its vestigial constitutional authority by ratifying presidential decisions to go to war. This isn?t a legitimate exercise, of course, but as the Obama administration recently noted ? in defending its unconstitutional war in Libya ? Congressional abdication of its war-making role has effectively ratified the transfer of that power to the executive branch.

Well, why not make it official? This appears to be the intent behind section 1034 of the current National Defense Authorization Act. This provision is described by critics as ?a large-scale and practically irrevocable delegation of war power from the Congress to the President? that would be used to wage perpetual war everywhere on the face of the earth.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.