Congress evaded war-authorization votes by shifting responsibility to the president

Evidence

In a lack of moral and congressional responsibility, Congress evaded taking a vote on whether or not the nation should go to war. House Speaker John Boehner shifted the responsibility to the president, claiming that he already had the authority to do so. The House would not address the issue, he explained, unless the president requested it (Baker & Knowlton, 2014). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2470

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Directly instantiates Bandura’s displacement of responsibility mechanism - leaders evade moral agency by transferring it upward.

Related

• Legislators displace responsibility for war onto the executive to avoid accountability (similarity 0.93)
• Deferred war authorization lets both branches evade accountability for prolonged conflict (similarity 0.83)