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president trump will be inaugurated in just 11 days. upon taking office he will have enormous powers inherited from his predecessors to impact various aspects of american public policy. nowhere is the increase in power more apparent than in the proliferation of executive orders and proclamations and memoranda and executive agreements and edicts with the force of law. article one of the constitution vests congress with the power to legislate within the confines of its enumerated powers. article two vests the president with executive power which encompasses the duty to take care the laws be faithfully

executed and the president's status as the commander in chief of the armed forces which are more general powers than those granted to congress. however, successive congresses have gradually delegated much of their power to the president or stood idly by as presidents have usurped more power that is legislative in nature and effect. former president bill clinton's advisor summed up the power of modern executive orders best when he said "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of cool." the informal definition, as inarticulate as it is, is actually accurate description of the power of eo's. american law does not defined in executive order specifically despite it being the president's most important means of wielding power domestically. in practice eo's are written

directives that have the force of law and are issued by the president to direct and manage how federal agencies, employees, or department heads operate and perform their duties and set other policies for the executive branch. the manager statutory requirement for eo's's they must be published in the federal register. the same is true for executive proclamations. nobody knows the true number of eo's. the government did not systematically numbering them until 1907. that count includes 14,133 executive orders. 10,784 proclamations, and many other memoranda, executive agreements, and edicts with the force of law. some are totally appropriate, such as president washington's asking the different federal departments what it is they do here. we are still waiting for an answer.