This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

War is a matter for deliberation.

In the United States, it's a matter for a deliberative bodies like Congress.

And yet in recent decades we've seen a substantial transfer of the power to make war over to the

executive branch with expensive and

representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a Democrat and representative Peter Meyer of Michigan or Republican,

hope to begin the process of clawing back those and other related authorities on behalf of the first

branch of government where they belong.

We spoke last week in the U.S. Capitol.

No better place to start then with James Madison who said the note there's no more wisdom to be found

than in the part of the Constitution that reserves the power to make war to Congress so

where did everything go off the rails? Well I think it went off the rails because members of

Congress of both parties allowed it to go off the rails. They allowed

Presidents to usurp congressional authority when it comes to issues of war and peace

and other national security matters and and so you know it's up to Congress to reclaim that authority.

This should be a front and center Republican issue.

President Trump it seems has had awakened an impulse to get out of these wars and perhaps can curtail the presidential

power to make war.

How does your cut nearly as neatly

stack up on this core Article 1 issue?

You know, it does not cut nearly as neatly

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