Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
Debates about war powers focus too much on legal checks and on the President’s power to start wars. Congressional checks before and during crises work better than many reform-ists suppose, and there are ways to improve Congress’s political checking without substantial legal reform.
Disciplines
Law | Military, War, and Peace | President/Executive Department
Recommended Citation
Matthew C. Waxman,
War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View,
133
Yale L. J. F.
776
(2024).
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https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4442
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