by Bruce S. Jenkins

Salt Lake Tribune

09/29/04

As a child I was taught to take the Constitution seriously. ... After all, the creators of that document were persons of experience, learning and wisdom who had thought deeply about how government should be structured and how power should be divided. ... In the allocation of governmental power, the founders placed the power to declare war in the legislative branch. ... They did this deliberately and with full appreciation of the hard lessons of history, particularly British, French, Roman and Greek history. The design was to limit the power of one man to take the nation into war...

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