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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by baddox on Friday July 05, 2013 @06:09PM (#5996978)
> Congress could probably ban all foreign surveillance (that might create a Constitutional crisis, since foreign spying is a war power allocated to the Executive).

That would be an ironic constitutional crisis, since the Constitution makes it clear that the decision to exercise war powers is allocated to the Legislative.

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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by tptacek on Friday July 05, 2013 @07:01PM (#5997132)
No, Congress has the exclusive power to declare war. That's it.
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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by baddox on Saturday July 06, 2013 @06:17PM (#6000264)
Also to fund the military. But anyway, I think that the declaration of war mentioned in the Constitution is talking about the decision to go to war, not just some formality of whether we call it a war or not.
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