Many U.S. lawmakers want a say on taking action in Syria

Jesse Choper quoted in National Public Radio, August 28, 2013

“The Constitution doesn’t give me any quick answer to this,” says Jesse Choper, who teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley. “It does say that Congress shall have the power to declare war. Well, the president would say, ‘I am not declaring war. I am simply implementing foreign policy.'”