[MineralMan]

"Did you miss the threads and posts calling for President Bush to issue an executive order or send in the troops, regardless of his authority granted by the Constitution? Just do it, man! In essence, calling for the president to act as a dictator, rather than as the constitutional head of the executive branch of the federal government."

No, I saw those, and just thought they were trolls, sent over from DU.

[JonDavid]

"Did you miss the threads and posts calling for President Bush to issue an executive order or send in the troops, regardless of his authority granted by the Constitution? Just do it, man! In essence, calling for the president to act as a dictator, rather than as the constitutional head of the executive branch of the federal government."

No, I saw those, and just thought they were trolls, sent over from DU.



One example of the use of Executive Powers is President Lincoln at the start of the Civil War. Nowhere in the Constitution does it specifically state before the Civil War that a State could not leave the Union. President Lincoln USED his Executive powers to force the succeeding states to return to the Union. Now what would you call Lincoln or a President who took steps as head of the Executive to save the Union? Also, Lincoln freed the Slaves by Executive Order, we know it as the Emancipation Proclamation. Lets not forget that the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision legalized Slavery in America. So God Forbid, a President, Lincoln, overturned a Supreme Court decision by an Executive Order.