POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Symbolic Power, Wield, Bumper Sticker
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When we, as a nation, mobilize to fight a war, we would do it very dramatically through drafting and training. After war was over we would send them home and return to a residual force because having a huge army ready to go on sight is a threat to freedom. After wwii, we kept armies at peacetime because of the cold war. Effect was supposed to give presidents in this era the power to get involved in foreign affairs safely. We continue to have a wartime army in place which bolsters the president"s ability to wage war without declaring war. Congress has pushed to the bureaucracy (president) the first responsibility of letting the public know what spending is going towards. Powers and traditions prior to most recent developments. Congress members each represent only a fraction of the population but president represents us all. Commander-in-chief, foreign policy leader and advocate for.
