high colorado right here with episodetwenty two and this week we are taking a look at the sorted list of executiveorders issued by american presidents what are they howard they used are they constitutional well let's start with what exactly anexecutive order is according to the national archives executive orders or official documentsnumbered consecutively through which the president of the united states managesthe operations of the federal government no big deal
he needs some way to manage theexecutive branch right and according to the u_s_ supreme courtthe goal of an executive order is just to clarify or act to further a law putforth by the congress or the constitution it is not intended to make up new laws and executive orders should neverviolate the constitution the constitution is crystal clear on thismatter article one section one sentence one all legislative powers here in grantedshall be vested in a congress of the
united states which shall consist of asenate and house of representatives the constitution and the supreme courtboth agree the president is not to make a laws v examine a border or any othermechanism that is the job of congress also the constitution goes on to say thespecific power to declare war shall also be reserved for congress that was seen as an important separationof power the congress shall declare war and thepresident shall run it so let's take a look at how somepresidents have been should executive
orders and how they hold up franklin d_ roosevelt issued a total ofthree thousand seven hundred twenty eight executive orders between nineteenthirty three to nineteen forty-five one of his most famous and aparticularly terrible order was ito nine zero six six allowing forthe relocation of japanese-americans during world war two in the prison campswho needs their civil rights and due process of law as outlined in the fifthand fourteen th amendments to the constitution ma japanese-americansduring world war two according the f_d_r_
sadly hill nine zero six six was notsounds until a congressional committee created by jimmy carter investigated theego and found the incarceration ofjapanese-americans was not justified by military necessity but rather was based on race prejudicewere hysteria and a failure of political leadership f_d_r_ also pass deal six one zero onewhich outlawed the ownership of all gold coins by private citizens this is aviolation of basic property rights and remember history will repeat itself
so make sure you get your hands on ourfree gold and silver reported success council dot com slash free report itshows you how to prepare now to avoid falling victim to such laws while at the are really got theexecutive order ball rolling in a big way the next president a major league playball was j_f_k_ president john f_ kennedy issued aparticularly intrusive collection of executive orders which allowed a totalsubjugation of fundamental freedoms for example the first of the kennedyissued executive orders allows the
president to take control of all mediaas long as a national emergency exists and guess who gets to define when thereis a national emergency you guessed it the president goodbye checks and balances goodbye dueprocess but it gets worse other executive orders from this clusterallow the seizure of all facilities that produce energy including electricity
gasoline and solid fuels under thesecircumstances the president could also control all means of transportation bothpublic and private including ground an air transportation another declares that our food resourcescould be taken over by the executive branch this includes all agriculturedistribution and retail facilities other executive orders allow for theinvoluntary registration and relocation of u_s_ citizens in the labor groupsunder government surveillance you can ask the japanese americans if thissounds familiar
this group of orders touched nearlyevery tenant of private life and commerce and none of them have been repealed they have been expanded remember thefema disaster during hurricane katrina with the federal government acting underthe same law using executive orders to respond to that catastrophe scared yet let's also not forget something formercongressman ron paul often reminds us the default position of the constitutionis
inaction if the duties are not clearly given tothe federal government than it is their job not to act moving on president gerald ford expandedj_f_k_'s emergency executive orders by empowering government to take overhealth education welfare mechanisms of production anddistribution energy sources
wages salaries credit and the flow ofmoney using the very popular reasoning while the last guy did it and got awaywith it in the nineteen eighties presidentronald reagan sent military forces to el salvador without congress declaring anact of war he claimed he had authority infurtherance of the war powers resolution of congress enacted in nineteen seventythree the war powers resolution was intendedto curtail nixon sending more troops in the vietnam with our declaration of war this resolution provides that thepresident can send u_s_ armed forces
into action abroad only by authorizationof congress in case of a national emergency createdby attack upon the united states its territories or possessions it's armed forces and you guessed it the president gets to determine whatconstitutes a national emergency president bill clinton initiated threehundred sixty three executive orders including approving the course of a warin nineteen ninety nine without congressional approval and byusing the same war powers excuses is
reagan so you can see by these above exampleshow american presidents have used executive orders to circumventestablishing a law or declaring a war the constitution away by getting congressional approval but what about presidential action thatyou don't really want embodied in an official document like an executiveorder since having a pesky record of yourunconstitutional behavior can go down badly in the history books
it sometimes much better to just usesecret executive orders for example president george w bush allowedwiretapping of domestic citizens to witch hunt for terrorist under a secretexecutive order unfortunately the targets ofeavesdropping or never reveal due to national security reasons the feds use the excuse that this wouldgive the terrorists a leg up this also means that no one will ever know who has beenconstitutionally injured by this
practice and therefore no one has standing to bring a lawsuitbefore any court in the nation to end this practice or to protect his or her rights was also initiated a number of executiveoff the record orders approving enhanced interrogationtechniques or as we now know torturing suspects in guantanamo he did this despite the fact of theissue geo thirteen four forty specifically saying that the c_i_a_ maynot degrade
torture or treat in humanely anydetainee one of the approved practices waswaterboarding signing statements are variations onexecutive orders that amount to the same thing more power in the presidency obama expertly explain the illegalityand danger of them have the two thousand seven campaign event within congress office you have been do you promise not to use to testifystate your way
apologists plant proposal or properlywith this issue now we got a uh... a government desired by the founders derby checks and balance you don't want a president is too farfor congress is too powerful or courses too powerful everybody's got their own role congress' job is to pass legislation the president can veto it or he can sign it
but what george bush has been trying todo in part of is effort to accumulate more power in the presidency is he's been saying well i can basically change what congress passed by attaching a letter saying i don't agree with this part or i don'tagree with that part i'm lectures that are put it this way orthat way uh... that's not part of his power
this is part of the whole period georgebush that you can make also is it all uh... i disagree with that i taught the constitution for ten yearsi believe in the constitution i will obey the constitution of the united states.pornographers private until after the uh... huh with mom in the office we should beheading in the right direction now right wrong within nine months of takingoffice all bomber was using signing statements an executive orders in evenmore ink regis ways then bush could have
dreamed of all bomber has gone evenfurther with the expansion of the presidential kill list that according tohim main target u_s_ citizens without any due process whatsoever yes that's right folks the president of theunited states can kill your son or daughter just because he suspects themof terror against the u_s_ or any other country by the way federal prosecutors haveinterpreted the term terrorism to include charitable contributions topalestinians i don't follow u_s_ politics too closelybut i am unaware of the time when a
president identified himself and aconstitutional authority identified in act as a crime then came in at the same crime here tosomeone else of we truly are in bazaar a world here were criminals rule us when it comes down to it executive orders have been usedthroughout the twentieth and twenty-first century to circumvent thechecks and balances of congress and as a power grabbing mechanism
but it is important to note executive orders are not the tool of oneparty as we explained in episode five the two parties work together to advancethe cause of totalitarianism the goal is what we have today a democratically-elected dictator this all represents an horrific trend ofever-increasing totalitarianism america really needs to pay attention towhat is going on and reversed course quickly
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