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Exploring the US Constitution with a critical eye looking forward and back with author, lawyer, and syndicated columnist William Cooper and Pulitzer Prize-winning American legal historian Ed Larson.

Ed: law.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/edward-larson

Will: will-cooper.com

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We analyze how the Constitution's power to declare war works ... and why it doesn't. Donald Trump's war with Iran charts new territory in this controversial area.

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