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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress 1776 to ISIS. By David J. Barron. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Pp. xiv, 560. Index.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2018
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1 U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 12.
2 Id., § 8, cl. 14.
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31 Id.
32 Id.