Montecresto
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Your constitution is only as powerful and as weak as the citizens of your country allow it to be. If the President, and the congress, agree that attacking Syria or any other country is a preemptive or defensive strike to protect the US, who's going to challenge that decision? Are you or someone else going to take the government to court? Do you think the Supreme Court would overrule congress and the President when it comes to national defense?
In my view, the only time that happens is if the President and congress disagreed.
Well I will certainly agree with you on that. So many Americans don't know and/or don't care what the constitution says. Presidents have violated it without repercussions many times, its considered a god damn piece of paper that gets in the way of policy, its been treated as something that could be used to wipe ones ass, but it doesn't change what it is and it's guiding principles. I can assure you CJ that reaching halfway around the world and attacking a country that has not threatened or attacked us is a violation of our constitution as well as subsequent legislation.