Presidential Edicts Often Violate the U.S. Constitution

Presidential Edicts Often Violate the U.S. Constitution

Barack Obama is hardly the first president to use executive orders to sidestep Congress. In fact, he has issued fewer official edicts than any occupant of the White House since Grover Cleveland. Nevertheless, his use of executive orders continues to corrode the integrity of the Framers' vision for the republic. And nowhere is the problem of unconstitutional unilateral executive action more acute than in the realm of foreign policy. As Independent Institute Senior Fellow Ivan Eland argues in the Huffington Post, the Constitution gives far more authority to the legislative branch to conduct foreign policy than it gives to the executive. READ MOREhttp://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=1563#3922

President Must Get Proper Congressional Approval for Any Final Nuclear Agreement with Iran, by Ivan Eland (The Huffington Post, 8/17/14)http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=5062

No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Elandhttp://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=95

Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty, by Ivan Elandhttp://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=77