In 1812, the American Congress approved a declaration of war on Great Britain over trade restrictions.
The attacks triggered Britain and France's declaration of war against Germany two days later.
President Barack Obama failed to get a congressional declaration of war, as required by the Constitution.
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On Sunday, Prime Minister Tony Blair told CNN that he supported Bush's declaration of war on terrorism.
"They said we were not prisoners of war because there was no legal declaration of war, " Certain says.
Sudan has made no formal declaration of war, but analysts say Mr Kiir is clearly escalating the war of words.
The murder of two within ten days looks to Brazilians like a declaration of war against the state by organised crime.
The first season opens with the sinking of the Titanic, in 1912, and ends with the declaration of war against Germany.
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The problem here was that it was not clear that had he asked for a formal declaration of war he would have gotten one.
If this was the founding precedent, the deepest argument for the irrelevancy of the declaration of war is to be found in nuclear weapons.
But Syria says it was the second Israeli airstrike in three days, and Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad told CNN the attack was a declaration of war by Israel.
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So rather than being a formidable barrage, Mr Brown's double declaration of war looks instead like a white flag: an admission that he urgently needs to shore up Labour's core vote.
Ambassador Bolton dismissed North Korea's threats that U.N. sanctions would be a declaration of war, saying that the consensus opinion holds that Pyongyang has hurt its standing with its tests and its public statements.
You know the interesting thing is when people sign a declaration of war they understand that it's going to be long and arduous and day after day they have to put an effort into it.
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The environmentalist George Monbiot called the appointments a " declaration of war on the environment" by the prime minister, and there's been plentiful speculation in the media on the ministers' attitudes on this key environmental issue.
They are protected by the full faith and credit of the United States and preventing default is no less justified than using American military power to protect against an armed invasion without a congressional declaration of war.
However, rather than returning to the constitutional method of the Declaration of War, which can be given after the commencement of war if necessary (consider World War II) Congress chose to bypass declarations of war in favor of resolutions allowing wars.
He should then summon the congressional leadership as the representatives of the American people and their more junior colleagues to receive a highly classified briefing on the plan and to secure their support for a declaration of war, to be debated and adopted as soon as practicable.
This column is written not so much to defend big banks, but to help you defend your mind against this declaration of all-out war on your cognitive faculties.
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In the case of war, declaration means authorizing the president to engage in hostilities.
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The two sides are to push for a declaration of the ending of the Korean War in cooperation with neighboring nations.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Pennsylvanian who signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote that the war was only the first step in the Revolution's destiny to transform America and the world.
Predictably, it triggered a new declaration by the Mexican government of a new war on drugs.
It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.
After Ireland became free from the British in 1922 (when the War of Independence resulted in the declaration of the Irish Free State), the government, with the support of the Catholic Church, passed the Censorship of Film Act.
But the summit's final declaration calls instead for port security to be tightened as part of the ongoing war against terrorism.
In 1988 the prime ministers of Turkey and Greece met at Davos and signed a declaration that may have averted a war.
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