Plodcast Ep. 87 - Declaration of War & the Constitution, The Case for Trump, Anomos

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This week Douglas Wilson talks about Congress’ assigned right to declare war and how they have been shuffling out of it. Then he plods on to review Victor Davis Hanson’s book, “The Case for Trump”. Then Pastor Wilson wraps things up by taking a look at the Greek word anomos. Happy Plods! Show Notes: Declaration of War & the Constitution: Congress is assigned the duty to declare war by the constitution Congress wants the ability to authorize war and take credit for it if it goes well, but they want deniability if war goes poorly Conservative Christians need to believe that congress is responsible to declare war and they should not be permitted to shuffle out of it The Case for Trump: Written by Victor Davis Hanson Hanson is acutely aware of Trump’s ridiculousness He gives an amazing metaphor comparing Trump to chemotherapy 2 situations in the 2020 election: 4 more years of chemo or a returning cancer Anomos: Rendered as without law Used twice in Romans 2:12

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0:00.0	Yes, God. God. God don't never change.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Plodcast, episode 87.
0:19.4	Thanks for coming.
0:20.2	Thanks for listening in.
0:21.1	Thanks for doing whatever it is you do to get us into this conversation together.
0:26.8	So, Podcast episode 87.
0:29.1	Here we are.
0:30.2	So I want to talk about something in our Constitution, the United States Constitution,
0:37.5	that has sort of gone by the way, and I don't think it ought to have gone by the way at all.
0:43.5	And there are some severe problems that attend ignoring this part of the Constitution.
0:50.6	According to our, well, back up.
0:54.4	The last time the United States was in a declared war was in the Second World War.
1:01.6	And what happened was, obviously the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt
1:10.0	then asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan, and Congress responded by issuing
1:18.8	that declaration of war.
1:21.0	And then the President, as the Executive, as the commander-in-chief, was then responsible
1:26.4	to prosecute that war, having been declared by Congress. Now this was explicitly, this was just right according to Hoyle. This is right out of the Constitution. This is how it was supposed to function.
1:44.0	In the United States Constitution, Congress declares war,
1:49.0	and the President as the Executive and the commander in chief pursues that war.
1:55.6	He leads the country into war, but Congress is the one who declares it.
2:00.8	Congress is the one who declares war. Now, the United States has been in numerous
2:07.0	conflicts since the Second World War. Some of them actual wars and some of them in the gray area and some of them not.
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