In something over a century, corporations have been transformed from entities required to serve the public interest into immensely powerful engines of its exploitation, as owners of government, and authors of the few laws that touch them, immune to control and correction, whose sole purpose is to extract the greatest profit possible from a citizenry they treat with arrogant contempt. The War Powers Act of 1983 was crafted to restrict a President’s power to act unilaterally by requiring notice to be given Congress within 48 hours of committing military action, and allowing 60 days for Congress to either authorize an extension or declare war.