For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

This is a war that has been fought by troops out of hometowns, from the ranks of the National Guard and Reserves.

diverted the resources it required to the other war, in Vietnam.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

The proposition is this: that in a time of war the commander of an armed force... has the power... to suspend all civil rights and their remedies, and subject citizens... to the rule of his will... If true, [our] republican government is a failure, and there is an end of liberty regulated by law.

One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many African-Americans viewing themselves as a nation, or a nationality, within the borders of the United States.