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Thank you. WBUR Podcasts, Boston. I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie, helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique

clarity to the world we live in now. Hello there, Jack. Hello, Mignam. It's episode 110. A couple of

things going on around the world. What's your headline? The Founders' Worst Fears. That could mean a lot of things these days, Jack.

So sadly.

So tell me more.

Well, I'm quoting California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff speaking this week on the war powers

resolution and the Congress.

He's talking about Trump's war of whim on Iran,

a war without authority from Congress as the Constitution requires.

And, you know, if you Google founders in the warpower,

you will find entries like this from James Madison.

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates

that the executive is the branch most interested in war and most prone to it.

The Constitution has, accordingly, with studied care, vested the question of war

in the legislature. The Constitution says, Congress shall declare war. It split up the war powers

between the President and the Congress. The president executes.

The Congress decides.

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