executive order

Examples of executive order in the following topics:

• Executive Orders

  • In the United States, an executive order is an order or directive issued by the head of the executive branch at some level of government.
  • In the United States, an executive order is an order or directive issued by the head of the executive branch at some level of government.
  • The term executive order is most commonly applied to orders issued by the President, who is the head of the executive branch of the federal government.
  • These orders carry the same force of law as executive orders—the difference between the two is that executive orders are aimed at those inside government while proclamations are aimed at those outside government.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of executive orders made by the President

• The Expansion of Presidential Powers

  • The president is the head of the executive branch of the federal government and is constitutionally obligated to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed. " The executive branch has over four million employees, including members of the military.
  • Historically, two doctrines concerning executive power have developed that enable the president to exercise executive power with a degree of autonomy.
  • In other words, they did not expect a strong executive.
  • Nelson believes presidents over the past thirty years have worked towards "undivided presidential control of the executive branch and its agencies. " She criticizes proponents of the unitary executive for expanding "the many existing uncheckable executive powers – such as executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements – that already allow presidents to enact a good deal of foreign and domestic policy without aid, interference or consent from Congress."
  • Obama's administrative appointment made during a Congressional recess, and is scheduled to rule on the constitutionality of an executive order know as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) that delays deportation of undocumented residents who arrived as children.

• Vertical Checks and Balances

  • To prevent one branch of government from becoming supreme, to protect the minority from the majority, and to induce the branches to cooperate, government systems employ a separation of powers in order to balance each of the branches.
  • Congress is in charge of ratifying treaties signed by the President and gives advice and consent to presidential appointments to the federal, judiciary, and executive departments.
  • The executive branch (President) is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
  • He executes the instructions of Congress, may veto bills passed by Congress, and executes the spending authorized by Congress.
  • The president declares states of emergency, publishes regulations and executive orders, makes executive agreements, and signs treaties (ratification of these treaties requires the vote of two-thirds of the Senate).

• The Executive Office of the President

  • The Executive Office of the President (EOP) consists of the immediate and support staff of the President of the United States.
  • Ballpark estimates indicate some 2,000 to 2,500 persons serve in Executive Office of the President staff positions with policy-making responsibilities, with a budget of 300 to 400 million.
  • New units within the EOP were created, some by statute, some by executive order of the president.
  • The staff of the Executive Office of the President is managed by the White House Chief of Staff.
  • Explain the functions of the different agencies associated with the Executive Office of the President and their histories

• Preparing the Budget

  • The Office of Management and Budget is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President.
  • It is also responsible, later, for administering that budget to executive branch agencies.
  • In order to aid the president in generating a budget submission, the OMB evaluates the effectiveness of various agency programs, policies, and procedures.
  • The OMB also assesses competing funding demands among agencies in order to decide upon funding priorities.
  • OMB staff provide the Executive Office of the President with vital continuity, because they are among the several hundred career professionals that remain in their positions regardless of which party occupies the White House.

• The Legislative Function

  • One of Congress's foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch.
  • There have been charges that presidents acting under the doctrine of the unitary executive have assumed important legislative and budgetary powers that should belong to Congress.
  • They also perform the function of oversight by monitoring the executive branch and investigating wrongdoing.
  • In order to form a bill or resolution, first the House Financial Services committee meets.
  • Ideas for legislation can come from members, lobbyists, state legislatures, constituents, legislative counsel, or executive agencies.

• Executive Privilege

  • At that point, the Truman Administration issued a sweeping secrecy order blocking congressional efforts from the FBI and other executive data on security problems.
  • The Supreme Court addressed "executive privilege" in United States v.
  • The Clinton administration invoked executive privilege on fourteen occasions.
  • Correspondingly, the Bush administration invoked executive privilege on six occasions.
  • Analyze the application of executive privilege by the President since World War II

• Cabinet Departments

  • The cabinet is the collection of top-ranking advisors in the executive branch of government, particularly executive department secretaries.
  • Beneath the secretary, each executive department has a deputy secretary.
  • In other words, if the president, vice president, speaker, and president pro temopre were all incapacitated by death, resignation, or impeachment, the Cabinet members would ascend to the Office of President in a predetermined order.
  • The order of the departments, and the roles of the secretaries of each department, is as follows:
  • In addition to the secretaries of the established executive departments, there are some cabinet-level officers who are the heads of independent executive agencies.

• A Typical Department Structure

  • Executive departments are organs of the executive branch of the federal government that carry out foreign and domestic administrative duties and are headed by members of the Cabinet.
  • In other words, if the president, vice president, speaker, and president pro temopre were all incapacitated by death, resignation, or impeachment, the Cabinet members would ascend to the Office of President in a predetermined order.
  • Beneath the secretary, each executive department has a deputy secretary.
  • The Department of Justice is typical of all executive departments in its hierarchical organization.
  • Describe the organizational structure of an executive department such as the Commerce Department

• The Supreme Court as Policy Makers

  • The Constitution does not grant the Supreme Court the power of judicial review but the power to overturn laws and executive actions.
  • The Constitution does not explicitly grant the Supreme Court the power of judicial review but the power of the Court to overturn laws and executive actions it deems unlawful or unconstitutional is well-established.
  • More recently, many feared that President Nixon would refuse to comply with the Court's order in United States v.
  • The Court's decisions can also impose limitations on the scope of Executive authority, as in Humphrey's Executor v.
  • The Supreme Court holds the power to overturn laws and executive actions they deem unlawful or unconstitutional.