 Complete the following phrase:  Congress has an important role in national defense, including the exclusive power to declare war, to raise and maintain the armed forces, and to make rules for the military. Some critics charge that the executive branch has usurped Congresss constitutionally defined task of declaring war. While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, they asked for and received formal war declarations from Congress for the War of 1812, the MexicanAmerican War, the SpanishAmerican War, World War I, and World War II, although President Theodore Roosevelts military move into Panama in 1903 did not get Congressional approval. In the early days after the 