"When the Constitutional Convention was debating allocation of the war power, George Mason of Virginia said that he was against giving the power of war to the Executive, because not safely to be trusted with it; or to the Senate, because not so constructed as to be entitled to it. He was for clogging rather than facilitating war; but 'for facilitating peace.' . . . "Not only in the policies we have permitted at least two successive Presidents to pursue, but in institutional arrangements that Congress and the people have acquiesced in for some decades now, we have managed to reverse the proper order of things. We have managed to clog peace and facilitate war. I think it is time we got back on course."-Source: Alexander Bickel, Yale Law Professor, Testimony before Congress, Congressional Record,1971The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the:

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