Executive Orders or Sovereign Edicts?

Do you remember the President who famously said:Show more

“We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation,… I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone…and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.” - President Obama on CBS News.

This example of executive overreach should go down in history as one of the greatest abuses of a President’s executive power, the usurpation of the powers of other branches of government. But if Obama’s attempt to overthrow the legislative process was a perfect example, it was neither the first nor the last.

When did Executive Orders become edicts from a monarch? Like so many things, it happened slowly, then very rapidly. It started with Congress not wanting to write laws, so they started writing “frameworks” and turned over the details to the executive agencies. Then, as the American people began looking at the President more and more like a king...

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