In the beginning: "the power of war and peace"
"Not only war but public war": congressional authority in the new nation
"A war unjust and unnecessary": seizing a continental empire
"The great exigencies of government": the Civil War
"Remember the Maine": the birth of imperial America
"We must have no criticism now": the war to end all wars
"The sole organ of the nation": the birth of the imperial presidency
"The very bring of constitutional power": Japanese Americans and German saboteurs
"A world-wide American empire": the imperial presidency in the Cold War
"What every schoolboy knows": Vietnam and congressional abdication
"We were going to war": from the Gulf War to Afghanistan
"We will not hesitate to act alone": the American colossus in the age of preemptive war
"The constitution is just a piece of paper": empire vs. democracy.
