POSC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Hillary Clinton, Emancipation Proclamation
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Executive order: a rule or regulation for an executive agency or department issued by the president that has the force of law, no congressional approval. Internment of japanese americans (fdr: louisiana purchase, emancipation proclamation, national monuments, enhanced interigation (bush, fuel mileage limit, immigration, guns (obama) Controversy: presidents have opportunity and motive to seek unilateral policy solution, concerns about too much power, constitutionality without congress. If you change the rules of the game, you change the way the game is played. Executive order: congress, rewrite or amend a previous law or spell out in greater detail how executive branch must act, court challenges, veto, trump, health care, federal lands, rural farmers, environmental regulation, Guantanamo, hbcu"s: travel ban, transgender military ban, ending family separation. The judiciary: hamilton- federalist 78, weakest and lest dangerous branch, neither sword nor the purse, force nor will, only judgement.
