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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (51071)	10/11/2002 10:44:03 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

it [granting power to declare war to the President] was in response to public demand. Personally I prefer a narrow interpretation of such a part of our Constitution and don't like meddling and tweaking. For the public demand, I didn't see a foot-dragging cohabitationary congress looking to prevent the army from going into Afghanistan, so why should our constitution have to be modified now ? If there is genuine public demand for war or similar action, such as after 9/11, then the present laws for declaring war suffice largely I think and the balance of powers between congress and the executive branch shouldn't be modified.