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No, the executive order was an invention of Lincoln to bypass congress to expand war powers.
by austin-cheney 2y ago
No, the executive order was an invention of Lincoln to bypass congress to expand war powers.
- bluGill 2y agoThat is easy to refute. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federa...
- austin-cheney 2y agoWhile 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 The only evidence to the contrary found in that article is an executive order from the 1830s that was repealed two years later, which doesn’t make a strong case of disagreement.
- bluGill 2y agoThe article doesn't say what they were but George Washington issued eight.