Essay

There are many debates on the War Powers Act saying who is right and who is wrong in the situation, either the President or Congress. President Nixon authored the document. The purpose of the document was to ensure that Congress and the President share in making decisions that may get the United States involved in hostilities. The document was written in 1973. This document will help my argument because it gives me all the details and facts on the topic and will give me an insight on who is right and who is wrong in this situation.

In the Books and articles I have read many scholars believe that it is unconstitutional. Also that it was what lead up to the attack

The Constitution of the United States has been analysed and interpreted to fit a thousand mouths. Every scholar has their own opinion of the deeply important text. Each and every one also has different views on the War Powers Act, if it is Constitutional or not. The War Powers act is unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly defines the role of the president in foreign policy, and does not need to be amended, and it also clearly states the role of Congress in military action, and the Supreme Court has upheld expanded interpretation of the president's authority in matters of foreign policy.

In America, there is a major topic being debated; Donald Trump’s immigration bans. The Justice Department and “attorneys general” are in a heated debate about whether these bans are constitutional or not. The Justice Department’s position is that as President, he has both constitutional and legal authority to pull off these actions. According to the act President Harry S. Truman passed in the second article, “... the president [has] the power to suspend or impose restrictions on the entry of foreign nationals if he determines their entry ‘would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.’” (usatoday.com). By passing this act, the President has the power to issue orders as long as it is for the better of the people.

It is unconstitutional. Donald Trump is attacking the Muslims. There are many Muslims in the US and they have done no harm. He is blaming them and trying to make them leave. This like how Hitler and the Jews. Where Hitler discriminated and blamed the jews and try to get rid of them. This is somewhat similar because Donald Trump is picking on one race and discriminating them and blaming them. Trump is saying that every Muslim is bad.

The Bryant letter declares that "As commander-in-Chief, the President must be able to use whatever means necessary to prevent attacks upon the United States."* In my opinion this Act is reasonable if used under self defense. "If the government's heightened interest in self-defense justifies the use of deadly force, then it certainly would also justify warrantless searches."*

According to Title 50, United States Code, sections 1809(a)(1) “A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally engages in elctronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by statute.” Clearly, the NSA program qualifies as electronic surveillance, thus the program is illegal, unless “authorized by statute” or deemed unconstitutional. Is it legal? The Supreme Court has avoided concrete statements that would answer that question. The most relevant and recent judicial announcement came from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Cour of Review’s opinion in Sealed Case NO. 02-001.61. It state, “We take for granted that the President does have the authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information and, assuming that is so, FISA (Foreign Surveillance Investigative Agency) could not encroach on the President’s constitutional power.” However, the NSA program has violated FISA regulation, therefore it has been questioned whether or not the NSA is constitutional. Is it a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights? The wiretapping program violates FISA, a solid congressional regulation of the government’s powers. FISA creates criminal liability for those who conduct such wiretapping. Whether or not they should be prosecuted, those persons have committed federal

The hastiness of its inception caused the USA PATRIOT Act to be deemed unconstitutional by the public court of opinion. Many citizens feared it was a knee jerk reaction to an attack that came without warning. However, the USA PATRIOT Act is constitutional and an effective counter-terrorism

In my opinion this order is completely unwanted, it does not have any logic. They are basically saying that the president can do what ever pleases him. In my opinion, I think that there should have a trial before passing up a law that does not please anyone but the president. The president decides what is best for the people but if no one benefits how is it supposed to be what is best? Think about this, we are supposed to have logical freedoms, as stated in the Bill of Rights, but we cant have our freedom gone right off the bat. I get that this makes it easier to pass laws that need to be passed quickly, and I can agree with that but, what can we do if they pass an unfair law? What would we be able to do about it? The president should be

The order signed byPresident Bush that expanded NSA surveillance allowed them to do so without a warrant. This isa violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. The lack of judicial oversight shouldraise suspicions. The Fourth Amendment gives citizens the right to privacy, and not to besearched without a warrant. The US Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourth Amendment toprotect against government surveillance in the case US v. Katz. The case decided thatgovernment surveillance is only constitutional when permitted by the law, and the right toprivacy applies. The problem with that is there are only a few laws that permit any spying. TheElectronic Communications Privacy Act allows for wire tapping, but only on suspectedcriminals, and a warrant is still required. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA forshort, permits the government to spy on suspected terrorists, but only after going through aspecial, confidencial FISA Court to get a warrant. Neither one of these laws permits spying oncitizens without a warrant. The NSA has been collecting data on millions of citizens, only toanalyze the data later. This is an absolute abuse of power that is blatantly unconstitutional.Even if the NSA spying was done legally, it still should not be done. This is because ithas been proven that we cannot trust this agency with our information. Those employed by theNation Security Agency are given an incredible amount of power. If an agent wanted to collectdata on any individual, they could. That data could include text messages and even privatephotos. There have been many cases of agents abusing their power to spy on their significantothers or even past lovers. This kind of action is so common it has an internal name in theagency, known as LOVEINT, or Love Intelligence. In one case, an agent entered the emailaddress of his ex-girlfriend the first day that he had access to the surveillance tool.

I do agree with the Supreme Court’s decision and after reading all the Justices opinions agree mostly with Justice Jackson’s written opinion. Although, I think the executive order was unconstitutional, I believe that if Congress had come to the same conclusion through a vote it would have been justified within the limits of the Constitution. The power to support the military and the power of seizure are clearly limited to congress in the Constitution. In my opinion, I think that setting a precedent where the President has that kind of power would create a slippery slope affect for future conflicts and issues

Kennedy, Linden B. Johnson was declared President of the United States. Johnson had planned to carry on Kennedy’s plans for the country, but he was more interested in putting an end to communism. In order for this to happen, Johnson needed to stop it at the very beginning; Korea. Even though he held a good reason, ending communism wasn’t enough to start a war. Johnson needed an event to declare war in a fair manner, and the Gulf of Tonkin was the perfect event. The Gulf of Tonkin incident happened on August 2nd, 1964, off the gulf on North Korea. Reported, only allegedly, there had been three North Korean battleships had appeared out of thin air and attacked the USS Maddox. In reality, no one is quite sure what had gone on, but this incident was the perfect excuse for LBJ to use for is a declaration of war. His cabinet had gone to Congress and proposed a bill that would give Johnson and future presidents a broad range of power. On the 7th of August 1964, the bill passed both sides of the house and became known as the Gulf of Tonkin

President George Bush focus more on executive power and also trying to change the constitution. I understand, at the time of an emergency circumstance of the terrorist attacks the president need to make a quick decision to protect the country but the law limited the power of the president as a commander-in-chief to declare war. The congress has the power to making the decision rather than the president. Check and Balance is made to ensure the president and all the branches did not have too much power. To declare was is a huge decision to the country which the decision should not be made upon one person. President and congress should be deliberate and discuss the matter together.

This is violated when the government infringes and essentially searches through the activity that people are doing in their own homes. In a way this is very much the same as if the government were to come in without a search warrant and look through one’s belongings. Many people would not investigate whether surveillance by the government was unconstitutional unless there was a reason to. Cases have existed in which people have gone to court against the government for invading their privacy including the Supreme Court case Alderman v. United States 1969.

The second week of December has arrived which I am not looking forward to. I sit in the stall waiting for my poor, skinny cow, Daisy, to give me milk, but nothing happens. I go over to my chickens to see that two are frozen and way past dead. December is the worst month of them all, even though Christmas is soon to come, no one in our city looks forward to it because it reminds us, non wealthy people, what we don’t have. The feast is tomorrow and I barely have any food ready for it. The Administrators made an annual day in which the Producers, the deprived like my family and I, go to an annual feast, two times a month to give the food that we’ve made at our farms to give to the Collectors. The Collectors then take the amount of food