war power

noun

: the power to make war

specifically : an extraordinary power exercised usually by the executive branch of a government in the prosecution of a war

Examples of war power in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With aid from conservative majorities on the Supreme Court, presidents reasserted broad claims of executive privilege, expanded war powers, and won immunity from prosecution. —

Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024 Reforming the president’s war powers promises to be a long slog and would by no means guarantee that the United States finds a greater measure of peace. —

Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021 Reining in the executive branch’s unilateral war powers and requiring public deliberation over where and against whom the United States is waging war would be a good place to start. —

Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021 The governor formally declared that the arrival of record numbers of migrants was an invasion, and invoked a section of the U.S. Constitution that, according to his argument, allows states to assume war powers in such situations. —

J. David Goodman, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for war power

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