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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Well, last time I checked, The President doesn't make law
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you should check again because you're either trying to make some semantic shift or are ignorant on the role the president has in executing laws in the nation.
was kinda hoping you'd have more than a high school civics understanding of laws and policies in the US...yes, the Congress makes "law" as per what nearly all of our teachers explained to us growing up.
try naming some laws that actually effect you on a day to day basis that come from Congress? Compare that to regulations and policies that affect you from the time you wake up to the time you go back to sleep: FCC, FDA, the Treasury dept, Dept. of Justice, are just some examples.
Every one of those agencies makes "law" in the way that government policies and actions affect your body and ideals. It's convenient for you to claim that the judicial branch makes law while refusing to use that same interpretation for the executive branch?
We have
one branch that creates law, according to the strictest definition. The judicial branch merely interprets law. Although, many people feel that the effects produce law. How is that different than the treasury dept. interpreting the tax code and altering the "law" or the executive branch's prosecutoral arm interpreting the criminal code thereby altering the "law"?
Of course, your question was what Bush was doing to circumvent the constitution. Now you've tried to sidestep my direct answer by muddling with "what is law" and "who makes law" questions.
Go ahead...the answers won't support your position. But I'll play along because it's something of interest to me.
what is law?
who makes law?