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Robert F. Turner: Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War

[Professor Robert Turner is Associate Director, Center for National Security Law , University of Virginia.]

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. It is a great pleasure to appear before you once again this morning. The issue before us is one of great importance to the nation and to the principle of the rule of law. As this hearing will demonstrate, it is also an issue about which honest and able scholars can profoundly disagree.

Introduction

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