So the US president can't declare a war by himself, but he can bomb an entire country including its civilian population "back to the Stone Age?"

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical," was written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on January 30, 1787. It referred to Shays' Rebellion and the need for periodic civic unrest to maintain government health

I maintain that that revolution could be an open and fair election