The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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8913. WAR, Power to declare.—[further continued] .
We had reposed great
confidence in that provision of the Constitution
which requires two-thirds of the Legislature
to declare war. Yet it can be entirely
eluded by a majority's taking such measures
as will bring on war.—
To James Monroe.
Ford ed., vii, 222.
(Pa.,
March. 1798)
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