Honestly, I kind of doubt it too; once given a power the government rarely takes it back. Look at the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Before that a president couldn't just send people into another country precisely because it was difficult to get the congress to agree on a war. Not that it had stopped presidents before, but at least they had to think about it. Since then the length of time a president can send in troops without a declaration of war has only extended. How many wars have we had since the last time the US declared a war? But congress is happy to let a president do the dirty work because none of them want to lose an election because they supported a losing war; they learned that lesson in Vietnam.
Honestly, I kind of doubt it too; once given a power the government rarely takes it back. Look at the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Before that a president couldn't just send people into another country precisely because it was difficult to get the congress to agree on a war. Not that it had stopped presidents before, but at least they had to think about it. Since then the length of time a president can send in troops without a declaration of war has only extended. How many wars have we had since the last time the US declared a war? But congress is happy to let a president do the dirty work because none of them want to lose an election because they supported a losing war; they learned that lesson in Vietnam.
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