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Which is exactly what Congress refuses to do, because letting Caesar, I mean the President, decide things by fiat keeps them from owning the blame for bad legis

• Eumenes 3y ago
  At least Caesar was a respectable age for leading when he died (55) ... This is interesting: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-orders https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...
  • nerdponx 3y ago
    Don't forget that life expectancies were much lower back then, and that he was assassinated. He certainly would have been happy to continue into his 80s if he could.
  • frumper 3y ago
    It is interesting. I would have thought executive orders were more frequently used now than in the past. Apparently that peaked 80 years ago.
• nerdponx 3y ago
  Congress has generally refused to seriously legislate anything other than banning lightbulbs for several presidential terms now. But in this particular example I don't think it's enough of "thing" to even consider bringing up as a bill, except maybe as a one-pager that passes unanimously.