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To: TimF who wrote (276501)	2/26/2006 2:19:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572780

And I think there's been general agreement and the Prize cases support the authority of the president to take military action on his own in the case of an emergency when there is not time for Congress to react." does not even comes close to "the president has the right (or power) to declare war". In other words, if that quote is the closest you can find than you have no substantiation for your claim that Alito said "the president has the right to declare war". Alito said that the president can take military action......declare war......without the approval of Congress when there is not enough time to get a response from Congress. Well, for the current president, 24 hours turnaround is too slow [see wiretapping]. Hence, according to Alito, the current president could declare war at the drop of a hat without Congress's approval, because a 24 hour turnaround time is unacceptable to him. I don't think that's what the FF had intended when they drew up the Constitution.