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Charles Sumner: “But it is otherwise in the United States, where, according to the Constitution, the war-making power is expressly lodged…”

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But it is otherwise in the United States, where, according to the Constitution, the war-making power is expressly lodged in Congress, while the treaty-making power is expressly lodged in the President, acting with the advice of two thirds of the Senate.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner contrasts the distribution of war-making and treaty-making powers in the United States with that in other countries.

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