Among the enumerated powers granted to Congress in Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution, is the authority to declare war. Throughout America’s 240-year history the Legislative branch has only exercised this authority eleven times. The most recent instance occurred in June 1942 when the Senate approved a unanimous resolution to take it to Romania, then allied with Nazi Germany. That means, since the end of World War II in 1945, the USA has enjoyed seventy-one years of uninterrupted peace. Or something like that…