Download or read book Declaring War in Early Modern Europe written by F. Baumgartner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution.