Executive Order

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An executive order is an action which does not require the approval of the Congress, by the President. It cannot contradict or override any law, but can direct agencies in the executive branch in accordance with law. For example, only the President can issue an Executive Order for a budget sequester, by law. Conservatives are often critical of executive orders for how they bypass the United States Constitutional process for enacting new laws.

The proposed executive order on abortion to which Bart Stupak agreed on March 21, 2010, and which is riddled with loopholes, is available here. A criticism is available here.

Barack Obama issued 276 executive orders in total.[1] During his two term Presidency, Ronald Reagan issued 381 executive orders.[2] One must look at the content of executive orders rather than the number issued to determine whether overreach had been committed by a president.

An advisor to President Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, once joked: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool."

Presidents and executive orders

Line graphs

Executive orders in line graph form demonstrating the issuance count of all former presidents.
Executive orders in line graph form from the Founding until Progressivism, demonstrating when the presidency began to be out of control.



































Table

President Total Orders Order Number Range
George Washington 8
John Adams 1
Thomas Jefferson 4
James Madison 1
James Monroe 1
John Quincy Adams 3
Andrew Jackson 12
Martin van Buren 10
William Henry Harrison 0
John Tyler 17
James K. Polk 18
Zachary Taylor 5
Millard Fillmore 12
Franklin Pierce 35
James Buchanan 16
Abraham Lincoln 48
Andrew Johnson 79
Ulysses S. Grant 217
Rutherford B. Hayes 92
James Garfield 6
Chester Arthur 96
Grover Cleveland - I 113
Benjamin Harrison 143
Grover Cleveland - II 140
William McKinley 185
Theodore Roosevelt 1,081
William Howard Taft 724
Woodrow Wilson 1,803
Warren G. Harding 522
Calvin Coolidge 1,203
Herbert Hoover 968 5075 - 6070
Franklin D. Roosevelt 3,721 6071 - 9537
Harry Truman 907 9538 - 10431
Dwight D. Eisenhower 484 10432 - 10913
John F. Kennedy 214 10914 - 11127
Lyndon B. Johnson 325 11128 - 11451
Richard Nixon 346 11452 - 11797
Gerald Ford 169 11798 - 11966
Jimmy Carter 320 11967 - 12286
Ronald Reagan 381 12287 - 12667
George H. W. Bush 166 12668 - 12833
Bill Clinton 364 12834 - 13197
George W. Bush 291 13198 - 13488
Barack Obama 277 13489 - 13764
Donald Trump

See also

References

  1. National Archives
  2. National Archives

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