In its two centuries plus of existence, the U.S. has committed troops to conflicts overseas

at least 182 times and counting. Congress has declared war 11 of those times and not since

Pearl Harbor and certainly not during the administration of Barack Obama who has initiated

drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen bombing runs in Libya, airstrikes on ISIS with his

administration taking the position that he does not require a declaration of war or really

even any sort of new permission from Congress. So is he right? Well, that sounds like the

making of a debate. So let's have it. Yes or no to this statement. The president has exceeded

his constitutional authority by waging war without congressional authorization, a debate

from intelligence squared U.S. I'm John Donbine. We are at the Miller Theater at Columbia

University where in partnership with the Richard Paul Richmond Center and the National

Constitution Center. As always, our debate will go in three rounds and then our live audience

here at the Miller Theater at Columbia University will vote to choose the winner and only one

side wins. Our motion again, the president has exceeded his constitutional authority by

waging war without congressional authorization. Let's meet the team first arguing for the

motion. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Jean Healey.

Jean, your vice president of the Kato Institute, you research their executive power and the

role of the presidency right on target. You have said in the past that our presidential

candidates talk as if they are running for guardian angel, shaman and supreme warlord

of the earth and we like it. We deserve you said. I want to ask though, have we had any

elected officials who are non supreme warlords in our recent history?

Well, I'm afraid I don't have anything good to say about any of the recent ones, but I

do always tell people that war and G-harding gets a bad rap. It's time America forgave

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