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What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...court officer visited the Beijing home of Chen Ziming's elderly parents late last month and presented them with an official notice. A branch of the Beijing procuratorate court, the document said, has approved the formal arrest of Chen Ziming on charges of "inciting counterrevolutionary propaganda" and "subversion." A trial could take place as early as this month...
...legal dilemma involves two competing clauses in the nation's governing document. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power . . . to declare War." But according to Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green...
...supplement, Nye and several other academic deans concentrated on discussing the issues that the faculty had supported. Nye said the report was an attempt to clarify some of the points the first "discussion document" brought...
Today, President Bush stands in direct violation of that document. While 250,000 American troops are stationed in Saudi Arabia and many more are preparing to join them, Bush has made no attempt to gain authorization for an offensive capability from the only body that can constitutionally declare war--the United States Congress. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to declare war, yet members of Congress don't even seem concerned with preserving this Constitutional prerogative. And Bush has been all too willing to run Operation Desert Shield without their input...