Creeping dictatorship 3

"[Congress cannot] place any limits on the president's determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing, and nature of the response," the Justice Department asserted in a September 2001 memo solicited by the White House. "These decisions, under our Constitution, are for the president alone to make."

Liberals are often accused of making up stuff in the Constitution, like a right to an abortion, while conservatives claim to restrict themselves to the document's original intent. In reality, both sides make up stuff in the Constitution. The difference is in not in the means but in the stuff.