Executuve Orders

I would like to point out to certain people that the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order. Executive orders have been used by every president since Washington. Theodore Roosevelt issued over 1.400 executive orders. Truman used an EO to desegregate the military. Kennedy and Johnson handed down EOs to bar racial discrimination in federal housing, hiring, and contracting. The authority for EOs is in Sections 1 and 3 of Article II of the Constitution, which read in relevant parts as follows: 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America; and 3. he [the President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed. There already are laws regarding immigration. They just needed, shall we say, help. There were no laws covering the subject matter of the Emancipation Proclamation and if the people had waited for Congress to act, slaves would not have been freed so soon, if at all, due to the voting block of southern states, which sounds quite a bit like the current Republican party. The EO Lincoln issued was a matter of principle. I agree with President Obama that if the Congress doesn’t like his EO on immigration, they should have passed a law.