executive order

(noun)

A legally enforceable order, decree, or regulation issued on the authority of the head of the executive branch of government.

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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.

  • Defining Spread

    • Liquidity demanders place market orders and liquidity suppliers place limit orders.
    • A limit order is an order to buy or sell a stock at a specific price or better.
    • A buy limit order can only be executed at the limit price or lower, and a sell limit order can only be executed at the limit price or higher.
    • A limit order is not guaranteed to execute.
    • While limit orders do not guarantee execution, they help ensure that an investor does not pay more than a pre-determined price for a stock.

  • 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

  • The Branches of Government

    • The United States Constitution set out three separate branches of government: the legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.
    • The Constitution empowers the President to ensure the faithful execution of the laws Congress makes.
    • Courts check both the executive and legislative branch through judicial review.
    • US courts have the power to rule legislative enactments or executive acts invalid on constitutional grounds.
    • Any state or federal court has the power to refuse to enforce any statute or executive order it deems as not aligned with the Constitution.

  • 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

  • The Division and Separation of Power

    • The Separation of Powers is defined as the division of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
    • This philosophy heavily influenced the writing of the United States Constitution, according to which the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government are kept distinct in order to prevent abuse of power.
    • Executive power is vested, with exceptions and qualifications, in the President of the United States.
    • The Constitution empowers the president to ensure the faithful execution of the laws made by Congress.
    • Courts check both the executive branch and the legislative branch through judicial review.

  • 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