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tax the people (1 Samuel 8:4-19). Israel didn't listen to the voice of God. As a result all of Israel
suffered as one king after another led them away from God. The people even suffered as a result
of decisions made by King David and King Solomon. Why should it be any different in the
United States? If the President of the United States is given dictatorial powers, why would we
expect anything other than oppression, misery and death?
Executive Orders
Presidents of the United States have been increasingly usurping the power and authority
of the Congress through Executive Orders. Although the President has the authority to issue
Executive Orders in accordance with his administrative authority over the federal government,
this authority does not extend to making laws. But making laws is what our Presidents have been
doing. Through Executive Orders our Presidents have been seizing power not granted to them by
the Constitution and they have been enacting laws through dictatorial edict. By law the Congress
can disapprove an Executive Order during a thirty-day grace period but the Congress has failed
to exercise this power for the most part.
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The Congress is not totally at fault for failing to exercise their power of disapproval.
Under President Clinton over 50,000 pages of Executive Orders were issued per year. The
Congress could never adequately review these orders. Additionally, President Clinton classified
some of his Executive Orders as Top Secret and only select members of Congress were able see
them. In Government By Decree, James L. Hirsen, Ph.D., states:
No doubt, at critical moments, the president has a need to safeguard
“military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets.” However, national
security is a particularly troubling area when it involves the use of executive
orders to classify government documents as “secret.”
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By classifying executive orders as secret the president can conceal from Congress and the
people of the United States his actions, which may subvert the US Constitution and surrender our
national sovereignty. These executive orders, even if they are unconstitutional, become law.
Harry V. Martin explained this in FreeAmerica.
A Presidential Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes
law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry. Congress is by-passed….
[Many] Executive Orders… suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be
enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:
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One classified order issued by President Clinton was Presidential Decision Directive 25
(PDD 25). A Presidential Decision Directive is one of the many different kinds of executive
orders. PDD 25 was put into law by President Clinton in 1994. Congress was only given a
summary but this summary reveals that President Clinton had given the Presidency the power to
place US military forces under foreign command. It didn’t take long for President Clinton to
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