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Reported by the joint conference committee on June 17, 1921; agreed to by the House on June 30, 1921 and by the Senate on July 1, 1921 Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on July 2, 1921 The Knox–Porter Resolution (42 Stat. 105 ) was a joint resolution of the United States Congress signed by President Warren G. Harding on July 2 ...
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. ch. 33) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration's proposals, [3] [8] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. EDT on October 10, 2002, by a vote of 296–133, [9] and passed the Senate after midnight early Friday morning, at 12:50 a.m. EDT on October 11, 2002, by a ...
Several constitutional amendments, such as the Ludlow Amendment, have been proposed that would require a national referendum on a declaration of war. After Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in January 1971 and President Richard Nixon continued to wage war in Vietnam, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution (Pub. L. 93–148 ...
The Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States which called for a national referendum on any declaration of war by Congress, except in cases when the United States had been attacked first. [1] [2] Representative Louis Ludlow (D-Indiana) introduced the amendment several times between 1935 and 1940 ...
A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the public signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in order to create a state of war between two or more states.
Rep. James Hay of Virginia, Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs. The National Defense Act of 1916, Pub. L. 64–85, 39 Stat. 166, enacted June 3, 1916, was a United States federal law that updated the Militia Act of 1903, which related to the organization of the military, particularly the National Guard.
The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub.L. 80-253, 61 Stat. 495, enacted July 26, 1947) was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II.