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Meaning of "war powers"

war powers: This phrase refers to the authority or control given to a government or military leader during times of war. It involves the ability to make critical decisions, allocate resources, and exercise command over armed forces in order to protect and defend a nation or achieve strategic objectives

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People resides in its war powers.
Obama took these war powers further than any president before him.
The president in fact reported to congress under the war powers resolution.
That was transfer of war powers from Congress to the president.
The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.
This gives him unlimited war powers in the broadest sense.
It would be a very solid brick in the wall in reestablishing our congressional war powers.
The president is given expansive war powers during war time.
The War Powers Act was conceived to stop this kind of reckless military adventurism.
The extent of foreign policy and war powers of the presidency are questioned.
I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers.
Obama administration asserts unlimited war powers without Congressional authorization.
The power that a State has over its people resides in its war powers.
But returning the war powers to Congress will not solve the problem.
By this time Roosevelt had war powers.

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And become the Cold War powers that we are today.
NSA chief likely to lose cyber war powers.
Democrats push war powers resolutions in House and Senate.
Senate Democrats have proposed their own war powers resolution.
The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president.
The notion that Congress has the responsibility to exercise a check on war powers has disappeared.
War Powers Act interpretation which gives the executive branch broad powers.
I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers but no one knows just exactly.
The War Powers Resolution has been controversial since it was passed.
The Congress has granted war powers.
War powers authority of the Emperor of Japan Martial law.
Vietnam and the war powers Act.
The War Powers Resolution and other historical examples prove.
You know we can not go in until the president invokes the War Powers Act.
War powers authority of the President of the United States Martial law.
Ken Buck voted with his party against the Iran war powers resolution.
But the War Powers Resolution has not stopped longer military interventions.
Syria shows the need for a War Powers Act.
War powers act, and the courts are war courts.
The first president to violate the War Powers Act.
Well, the war powers act required her to notify congress.
A compromise in the debate was reached with the War Powers Resolution.
We are passing today a war powers resolution to limit the president 's military actions.
We can not go in until the President invokes the War Powers Act.
Let that sink in, the war powers have been designed to rest with the president.
Where has McConnell traditionally been on these war powers issues?
Hence my war powers allow me to confiscate them as such, so I confiscate them.
I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers I am afraid I do not see.
The basic authority of a modern state of rich people resides in it 's war powers.
The imperial presidency - especially its expanded war powers - rests on constitutional quicksand.
Britain 's parliament has historically lacked formal war powers.
But the senators argue the president 's emergency war powers must be better defined and delimited.
He signed them, vetoing only bills that threatened his war powers.
Under the Constitution, war powers are divided.
The subordination of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residual war powers.

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