Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.
It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.
When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.
As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
I don't order laws, I propose them.
Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.