Letters: Congress has abdicated its responsibilities on war

Re: “Congress must have say in war-making decisions like Syria strike” [Opinion, April 12]: I am writing in strong support of your editorial. Our founding father, James Madison, said in 1793: “[T]he power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature … the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” That power is clearly enume