I count six EO’s for Reagan. FDR holds the record with over 3,000. The Leftist presidents after Reagan were in the 200-300 range.
One of the main problems with EO’s is they typically are efforts to do the wrong things the right way - but of course there is no right way to do the wrong things. The wrong things are the surfeit of unconstitutional acts and bureaucracies and the noxious and unconstitutional Administrative/Regulatory State.
The feds in an effort to implement unconstitutional laws use EO’s to both make law (often regulations) and enforce law which is basically unconstitutional since Congress is the only constitutionally authorized branch to legislate. So here is a perfect example of how the feds layer unconstitutional means in order to achieve unconstitutional ends.
EO’s, especially excessive EO’s, are a problem. But the bigger problem is the undoing the 70% to 80% unconstitutional portion of the feds. which needs a stake driven into its heart - kill it ‘till it’s dead.
Every freedom-loving American should be concerned about EO’s because they basically unconstitutionally combine lawmaking (ie. regulations) and execution in one Branch and act. Some say they’re necessary. But those who say that generally don’t understand that these “necessary” EO’s are as I said, a means of carrying out unconstitutional laws. All of it needs to go.
“I count six EO’s for Reagan.”
Reagan issued 381 EO’s over his 2 terms.
You’re either trying to be slippery, or are just stating opinion as fact without doing any research and hoping nobody will call you on it.
The last POTUS to issue fewer than 100 EOs was Chester Arthur. The only POTUSs in the last century to issue fewer than 200 were Ford, who was in office less than 3 years and still managed 196 of them, and GHWB who issued 166 of them over 4 years.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php
“Under Article II of the Constitution, the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress. Fifteen executive departments — each led by an appointed member of the President’s Cabinet — carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. They are joined in this by other executive agencies such as the CIA and Environmental Protection Agency, the heads of which are not part of the Cabinet, but who are under the full authority of the President. The President also appoints the heads of more than 50 independent federal commissions, such as the Federal Reserve Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as federal judges, ambassadors, and other federal offices. The Executive Office of the President (EOP) consists of the immediate staff to the President, along with entities such as the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the United States Trade Representative.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/executive-branch
Nothing even mildly unconstitutional about anything Trump’s done so far in office, and nothing outside the bounds of precedent going at least as far back as the Civil War. Trump’s just doing his job, and doing it better than any living president did during their terms.
“But the bigger problem is the undoing the 70% to 80% unconstitutional portion of the feds. which needs a stake driven into its heart - kill it ‘till it’s dead.”
This is exactly what Trump’s trying to do, but that job is mostly up to our hopelessly corrupt congress. One does what one can in times like these. The EOs are presently necessary because we have a large 5th column contingent within the gov’t engaged in open sedition and treason and fully off the constitutional leash. Short of mass firings or putting them all on trial (can you imagine the media circus that would ensue over that?), it’s the only recourse available.