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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power

Abstract

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This thesis is an analysis of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the impact it held on the role of Congress and the President in entering war. More specifically, this thesis takes a look at President Richard M. Nixon’s influence on the 93rd Congress’s decision to pass the War Powers Resolution after multiple failed attempts at similar legislation. Through a major domestic policy blunder, the Watergate break-in, and a foreign policy disaster, the on-going war in Vietnam, opposition to Nixon’s presidential conduct united both the House and the Senate and resulted in legislation that would attempt to restore the Constitutional balance of power.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
MA in History
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
History
Year dc:date.available
2009

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Cable, Kasey Elizabeth
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Thomas Trice

Subjects

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Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-1233

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citation

Cable, Kasey Elizabeth. The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power. 2009. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/224