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Ivan Eland
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
Voters Should Demand a Strategic Foreign Policy Vision from Candidates
As both parties hold presidential debates, issues in the
nation's foreign policy inevitably will be discussed. After all,
although the U.S. Constitution actually gives Congress more authority in
foreign and defense policies than the president, chief executives, ever
since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have wielded the constitutionally narrow
role of commander-in-chief too broadly, so as to even claim exclusivity
of power in this realm. Thus, during this last little bit of American
history, the president has become too powerful in foreign affairs, and
Congress has been too timid to reassert its authority--for example, in
reclaiming its power to declare war. Given that this unfortunate
reality will probably continue, the strategic vision of each
presidential candidate for the proper U.S. role in the world becomes
very important.
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