Description
Deluxe limited edition of The War Powers Resolution: A Constitutional Crisis, signed by President Gerald R. Ford and limited to 50 copies.
Octavo, 109pp. Green cloth, black leather spine, gilt tooling on front cover, title in gilt on spine. Housed in publisher’s matching green cloth slipcase. Signed by President Ford on the half title. From a limited edition of 50 copies, this being number 44. A fine example.
This address by Gerald Ford was given at Butte College in 1991. It addresses the War Powers Resolution (War Powers Act) which was enacted by congress over the veto of President Nixon. In 1973, tired of the Vietnam and Korean Wars, congress passed a new law that required a president seek a declaration of war by congress before sending troops into combat. While this law has never been challenged in the Supreme Court, President Ford contended that it was unconstitutional and hindered the ability of the executive to defend the nation. President Clinton and President Bush both challenged the law with their actions in Kosovo and Iraq.
