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On the recordJune 27, 2011
The Constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Citing historical concerns about executive power in war-making.

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