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Every president has used executive orders.

However congress shouldn't have left something so important as tariffs up for modification by executive order.




No, the executive order was an invention of Lincoln to bypass congress to expand war powers.



While it might be easy to refute that article does not refute what I said. The only evidence to the contrary found in that article is an executive order from the 1830s that was repealed two years later, which doesn’t make a strong case of disagreement.


The article doesn't say what they were but George Washington issued eight.




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