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Massachusetts Men Must Go Vietnam Since President "Fights The War"

By VVAW

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--A suit by the state of Massachusetts to prevent its citizens from being ordered to fight in undeclared wars was thrown out by a U.S. District Court at the end of June.

The suit had been filed reluctantly by the State Attorney General after Massachusetts voters passed a referendum last fall making the drafting of its citizens to fight in an undeclared war illegal.

The judge threw out the law on the grounds that since the Constitution requires that the Congress declares wars and "the President fights them", the judge asserted, any illegal presidential war-making without congressional authorization could only be curbed by Congress itself and couldn't be decided by the courts.