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Sarah Burns, associate professor of political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an IHS-supported scholar, recently published a timely analysis in The Conversation examining the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and what Congress's current reluctance to assert itself tells us about the health of constitutional checks on executive power.
Her piece traces the arc from 1973, when Congress asserted its war powers against a resistant president, to today's comparatively muted response as the United States wages an open-ended conflict with Iran.
Burns says:
"The constitutional system creates an invitation to struggle. Now, as the US wages war on Iran, Congress must decide whether it wants to struggle, as it did during the Vietnam War, or remain compliant and in the president's shadow."
Read the full piece at The Conversation: "Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority"