The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was enacted to strengthen Congress’s check on the president’s war-making authority, but has been largely ignored by presidents, while the proposed War ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty ...

War powers resolution aimed at limiting Trump's military authority against Iran defeated in Senate vote amid ongoing debate over congressional role in authorizing strikes.

The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.

Decades after Congress ceded much of its war powers authority to the presidency, it is going to have a hard time taking it back.

Bombing Iran without congressional authorization escalated a bipartisan trend of presidents bypassing the original intent of the Constitution.

News 9's partners at PolitiFact found that, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress has the right to declare war.

The Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent President Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress, less than a week after he directed strikes aimed … ...