Checks And Balances In We The People

In the book “We the People”, Lynne Cheney states that, “It's about checks and balance. That’s why congress makes the laws so the President cannot have too much power. It's total unconstitutional!” This displays that executive orders give the president too much power. Ever since the birth of this country, the purpose was to have a system of checks and balances. We achieve this by limiting the power of the executive branch. The President’s ability given to him by executive order is unjust. For example, a president protected Eric Holder using executive order, a man who is responsible for the death of a border patrol agent. In addition, in the article “Executive Orders: right or wrong”, the audience states that, “Yes, an Executive Order is an unchecked abuse of power.” When the Constitution was written to create the Government of …show more content…
When an Executive Order is issued by the President, he is basically creating a law without Congress' approval. Therefore, the check that Congress has on the President of being able to veto the law, is non-existent. The only exception to this would be an Executive Order relating to the Armed Forces in which the President is the Commander in Chief and is permitted to issue such
This discussion is furthered by Tom Robinson, who states that “Back in the days of George Washington, the executive order was an announcement basically. They were never laws, for example one executive order by John Quincy Adams was just asking for a military funeral for Thomas Jefferson.” Robinson tries to convey that in the old days when an executive order was issued it did not convert into a law, but instead was just a