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End the practice of utilizing executive orders as legislative tools. The Executive Branch is not authorized to make law.

Created by J.M. on September 24, 2011

Executive orders are useful tools to allow the Executive branch to regulate itself. However, in some cases, Presidents have utilized the Executive Order, coupled with Congressional Acts that authorize the president to make such an order, to issue law. The Constitution specifically reserves the right to make law to the Congress of the United States, and does not authorize the Congress of the United States any ex-Constitutional method of delegating said authority. Unless Congress amends the Constitution to allow the Executive branch to issue law, then what authority does the Executive branch use to make law? Even worse, the Executive Branch delegates its unconstitutional power to its underlings, such as the EPA and the IRS, in the form of regulation, which also has the weight of law.

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