Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 386
tional theory of Jeffersons administration, as thepower to declare war was vested in Congress, no war measure could beundertaken, certainly no measure of offensive war, until Congress hadadopted a declaration, not even though an enemy had issued his manifestoesand made an overt attack. Unauthorized… … RICH.AKD D.\LE.* 370 NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA. President in his message of December, iSoi, to go beyond the line ofdefence, the Executive gave its officers instructions to use force to repelan attack, but forbade them to take the offensive, or to make captures ofpersons or…
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