Balance of Powers and the War Powers Resolution

        For this assignment, you will prepare a debate paper covering an issue that involves the balance of powers between the executive and the legislative branches: The War Powers Resolution. Step 1 Write a 4- to 5-page debate paper that address the following: You are serving an internship with a candidate running for Congress. She has asked you to help her prepare for a series of debates over central topics facing the nation. In the first section of the debate paper, you will provide the most powerful argument possible in favor of one side of the debate, and then you will do the same for the other side. Finally, you will write a critique of the side of the issue with which you disagree. The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress when he or she sends troops into combat and requires the president towithdraw them within 60 days if Congress does not approve of the actions. The executive branch has never acknowledged the constitutionality of this law. In the paper, you will debate whether the scope of the Warpower's Resolution should be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which hasrefused to hear challenges made by members of Congress to force the president to abide by the law. When addressing this topic, you must think carefully about the roles of all three branches of government and about the processes that lento the passage of and that support the current status of the War Powers Resolution. Your candidate's debates will take place before an audience of the general public, so be sure to explain the roles of the three branches of government and the current implications of the War Powers Resolution clearly.