Daniel Webster, War Powers and Bird$h*t - Lawfare

Daniel Webster, War Powers and Bird$h*t - Lawfare: In the course of researching a book, I’ve come across many episodes that Benjamin Wittes and I like to call “Weird War Powers $h*t.” One of my favorites is a story about American constitutional war powers and actual $h*t. It’s a story about very expensive bird-$h*t, or guano, and how one of the 19th century’s most important thinkers on war powers nearly stumbled the nation,