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    Powers of President As Commander-in-Chief of The Armed Forces

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    The President has broad powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces including control over military organization and personnel during both peacetime and wartime. He can deploy forces to prevent violence, invasion, or rebellion and establish military tribunals. While the President delegates actual command during war to military experts, the ultimate command belongs to the President. Congress also has authority over the armed forces by supplying funding and making laws to govern them.

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    The President has broad powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces including control over military organization and personnel during both peacetime and wartime. He can deploy forces to prevent violence, invasion, or rebellion and establish military tribunals. While the President delegates actual command during war to military experts, the ultimate command belongs to the President. Congress also has authority over the armed forces by supplying funding and making laws to govern them.

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    The President has broad powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces including control over military organization and personnel during both peacetime and wartime. He can deploy forces to prevent violence, invasion, or rebellion and establish military tribunals. While the President delegates actual command during war to military experts, the ultimate command belongs to the President. Congress also has authority over the armed forces by supplying funding and making laws to govern them.

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    Powers of President as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

    The President is not only a civil official. As a Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, he is
    also in a sense a military officer. He is not, however, a member of the armed forces, and
    consequently, he is not subject to court martial or military discipline.

    (1) As Commander-in-Chief, the President has control of the military organization and personnel
    whether in peace time or in war time. He is given the broad powers to call out the armed forces
    to prevent or suppress lawless violence, invasion, or rebellion.

    (2) He is also empowered to create military tribunals to try persons who violate military laws or
    commit crimes against national security. However, even in a state of martial law, military courts
    and agencies have no jurisdiction over civilians, where civil courts are able to function.

    (3) In the event of war, the President, normally would delegate the actual command of the armed
    forces to his military experts. But the ultimate command belongs to him.

    Authority of Congress over the armed forces

    Congress shares with the President his authority over the armed forces. It supplies the money and
    makes the laws for their governance. To it belongs the sole power to declare the existence of a
    state of a war. (Art. VI, Sec. 23[1].)

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