1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated December 21, 2021Defense Primer: Congresss Constitutional Authority with Regard to the Armed ForcesArticle I, Section 8, Clauses 11-14 The Congress shall have power * ; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on
2、 Land and Water. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years. To provide and maintain a Navy. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces. The War Powers In Lichter v. United States, 334 U.S. 742 (1
3、948), the Supreme Court discusses the “war powers” of Congress as the sum of many interconnected authorities found in the Constitution. Addressing the constitutionality of the Renegotiation Act, an act allowing the government to renegotiate contracts related to war supplies during WWII, the Court de
4、clared that In view of this power To raise and support Armies, . and the power granted in the same Article of the Constitution to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, . the only question remaining is whether the Renegotiation Act was a l
