1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The President is currently prohibited from initiating a war or launching a first strike without congressional approval under the Constitution and Federal law. (2) The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, grants Congress the sole power to declare war. (3) George Washington wrote that The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure (Letter from George Washington to William Moultrie, August 28, 1793). (4) Alexander Hamilton wrote that The Congress shall have the power to declare war; the plain meaning of which is, that it is the peculiar and exclusive duty of Congress, when the nation is at peace, to change that state into a state of war (Hamilton Papers, Examination Number I, December 17, 1801). (5) James Madison wrote that The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature … the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war (Madison Papers, Helvidius , Number 4, September 14, 1793). (6) Section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution ( Public Law 93–148