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Executive Orders
The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.
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Executive Orders
The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.
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Executive Orders

Executive Orders

by Derek Miller
Executive Orders

Executive Orders

by Derek Miller

Overview

The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781502640604
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 12/30/2018
Series: How Government Works Series
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 10 - 13 Years

Table of Contents

1 What Are Executive Orders? 5

2 Who Issues Executive Orders? 17

3 Executive Orders in Action 37

4 What Happens Next? 47

Glossary 56

Further Information 58

Bibliography 60

Index 62

About the Author 64

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