War Powers Act
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At the end of the Vietnam War the American people wanted a way to know that we couldn’t go to war just off the president’s word that it must be a congressional decision to go to war. The main reason and goals of the Act was to limit the presidential power. The problems that were brought up were that the US had no reason to declare war in Vietnam. This made the war very controversial and people skeptical in the stability of the US government. The War Powers Act states that " the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, 'statutory authorization,” ‘or in case of 'a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.'"
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the Vietnam War