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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
This only means that the Congress declares war, not the President. This does not prove your point about how the Founders despised the kinds of wars that we are fighting in modern times.
None of this is even related to your central premise: "America's Founders were opposed to intervention and pre-emptive wars."
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It is indeed related. They never intended for one individual to be able to send troops to other countries and start wars.
What they didn't foresee though was that even the larger body of Congress can be corrupted and influenced to the point that it supports needless, pre-emptive wars and bends to the will of the President in foreign policy matters.