Vague authorization--a blank check, if you will--is the opposite of democracy.
Brad Sherman: “Vague authorization--a blank check, if you will--is the opposite of democracy.”
On the recordJuly 24, 2017
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Sherman argues that vague military authorizations undermine democratic principles.
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