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Town Hall Forum on Ending the War

The framers of the Constitution understood that one of the most consequential powers of a government is the ability to wage war. They intentionally made that option difficult to exercise by leaving the various states responsible for maintaining fighting forces in the form of militias and requiring an Act of Congress to declare war.

Lately, however, it seems we find our nation in a perepetual state of war and constantly putting our troops in harm's way, be it in Granada, Panama, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq.

How has the Constitution been manipulated by recent administrations to provide seemingly unlimited power to the president to wage war and suspend basic civil rights?

To begin to answer this question and find out how we can change the current course of events, we'll hear from several experts on the subject.

Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Political Science at NYU, will speak through his film A Patriot Act: A chilling indictment of the stealth movement within the Bush administration to subvert the US Constitution and replace American democracy with their own peculiar set of religious values.

Chuck Pennachio, Professor of American History at Philadelphia's University of the Arts and candidate for US Senate, will attend and has been asked to speak about the national security apparatus and how it has created a potential police state that threatens our privacy and liberty.

Joe Hoeffel, former US Congressman from Montgomery County and recent candidate for US Senate will talk about recent news that the President of the United States has ordered wiretaps and email intercepts of US citizens without proper court oversight.

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Sponsored by Montgomery County Democracy for America.
January 07, 2006
From: 09:00 AM until 01:00 PM

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