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Volume XL V]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
WAR POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE
BEGINNING OF HOSTILITIES
I. GENERAL POWERS
T HE recent acceptance of the Kellogg Pact by the nations
of the world has focused attention upon the powers of
the President of the United States with reference to
the formulation of American foreign policy. The rble of
Congress in this program for world peace has been a definitely
secondary one: a mere acquiescence in the decision already
reached by the Executive. But if the President, through his
control of foreign relations, can effect international peace, he
can also involve the United States in such difficulties with other
nations that war will necessarily result despite the anxious
efforts of Congress to preserve peace.
The much-vaunted doctrine of the separation of powers, a
doctrine hailed by our founding fathers as a political panacea
par excellence, was not given rigid application in the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and at times it has been difficult
exactly to de'imit the respective jurisdictions of the executive
and legislative departments. In recent years the r6le of
President of the United States has assumed a heightened im-
portance, and to many acute observers it appears as though
Congress were being pushed farther and farther into the back-
ground. America's increasing interest in the region of the
Caribbean has demanded effective governmental support which
has been extended mainly through the executive department.
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