How is an executive order different than a law?

One of the many responsibilities of the President involves issuing “executive orders.”

How is an executive order different than a law? What gives the President the power to issue such orders? What sorts of things can be done by executive order?

Go to the President’s website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

At the top, left corner, click on the three little lines, then “News,” then “Presidential Actions.”

Find an executive order issued in March 23, 2020, called “Executive Order on Preventing Hoarding of Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19.”

Write a 2 -5-page essay on this executive order, making sure you cover the following topics:

What is an executive order?

How is an executive order different from a law?

By what authority can the President issue this order? (Don’t just copy the “…by the authority vested the Constitution…” blurb. Explain.)

Explain the issue President Trump is attempting to address with this executive order, and what you think about it.

Do you agree or disagree with the order?

What is the order’s current status?

Submit in Word. Cite your sources.

Additional Resources

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Here are President Trump’s remarks about the executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-9/ (Links to an external site.)

The Hill posted this article: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/489125-trump-signs-executive-order-to-prevent-price-gouging-of-medical (Links to an external site.)