THE RELEVANT CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE WAR POWERS (excerpts)

Article II

Section1.

(1)The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

Section2.

(1)The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States…

(2)He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;…

Section3.He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, covene both Houses, or either of them…; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…