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To declare War

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 400 U.S. 886 - Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. R Laird · 1970Most cited · 159 citing opinions

a power to determine, free of judicial interference, the form which its authorization of hostilities will take.' This may be correct.

How often courts cite the case defining “To declare War”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “To declare War” — 157 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.