Executive orders / Marcia Amidon Lusted, book editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.

Are executive orders necessary for presidents to take important political action? What are executive orders? / The Hertage Foundation ; Executive orders are one way for the President to exercise authority / Vivian S. Chu and Todd Garvey ; Letting presidents take direct action / Lumen Learning ; Presidents can accomplish a great deal with executive orders / Leighton Walter Kille ; The President can declare war / Joel McDurmon ; The President shouldn't be able to set Congress's legislative agenda / Max Bloom -- Do executive orders work against the three-branch political system? The expressed and expanded powers of the President / Lumen Learning ; The separation of powers must be maintained / Jason Pye ; The use and abuse of executive orders throughout history / Todd Gaziano ; The US government has a constitutional duty to supervise / Gillian E. Metzger ; Without executive orders, political polarization would prevent anything from being accomplished / William P. Marshall ; Executive orders can be checked by other branches of government / Sarah Steers and Mike Roberts -- Do executive orders give the President too much power? The sparation of powers according to the Constitution / Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder ; Executive orders can have long-term negative effects / Nathan Hultman ; President Trump's executive order will contribute to climate change / Marianne Lavelle ; Congress can take action to prevent the abuse of executive orders / Todd Gaziano ; Executive orders enabled relief efforts for immigrants / The legislative process is too slow and complicated / Union of Concerned Scientists -- Are executive orders vital in times of national emergency? What is the role of the President? / James E. Hanley ; Treating the opioid crisis as a national emergency could allow something to be done about it / Alison Kodjak ; The Great Depression : lessons on effective executive orders / Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn ; Regulatory reforms made by execvutive order do not last / Environmental Law Institute ; The way presidents use executive orders abuses their original intentions / Brandon Schmuck -- Organizations to contact.