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"The reason why the Constitution had given the war-making power to Congress, was because Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars." - Abraham Lincoln bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund... h/t @ElaineLuria
![Former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) tweets: “The reason why the Constitution had given the war-making power to Congress, was because Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars. This, our [constitutional] convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” — Abraham Lincoln (1848)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlan7kocyn37uzb25btjt2cc/bafkreif7sugztgz4sokoxrsqtwh26ey3cslpyga6mtvfcbley2ef6fug3y)
