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To: sakic; All
You observe that the current President will have fewer EO's than Reagan. We must examine each President' use of the Executive Order, not in terms of the total number, but in terms of the purpose of that Order.

Executive Orders should be examined by whether the purpose of the Order is designed to "uphold and defend" the Constitution's limitations on government power and is in tune with the Constitution's protections of the people's liberty, or whether those orders are designed to subvert the Constitution's limits on government power over "the People," or over another branch of government, in violation of the Constitution's original structuring of those powers.

An interesting example of a Reagan Executive Order dealing with Federalism which might be considered supportive of Constitutional principles versus a Clinton Executive Order dealing with the same subject is discussed here

A President's Executive Order supportive of the Founders' Constitution's principles to protect "the People's" liberty and to comply with its limits on coercive government power is one thing.

A President's Executive Order whose intended consequence is to bypass the Founders' principles and provisions is quite another thing.

Numbers of EO's is not the question.

38 posted on 10/31/2014 11:59:02 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

It is either Constitutional or not to have executive orders. It can’t be any simpler than that.


41 posted on 10/31/2014 12:00:43 PM PDT by sakic
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