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    Events in World War II, including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, lead to inflated paranoia and hostility towards people of Japanese descent in America. As a response to the Americans citizens anxiety, Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in 1942. This order gave military personnel the authority to designate areas to be Internment camps to exile and deprive the rights of Japanese aliens, as well as innocent Japanese Americans. Mandatory evacuations were enforced all over the west coast

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    advancing it will become better as a whole. The truth is, if we all stay at ease with society there will be fewer problems. The idea that a person should learn to be happy with their society is demonstrated in the poem “In Response to Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita. In this poem it describes a Japanese American girl getting sent away to a camp and has to leave her best friend, who is a caucasian young girl. The Japanese American girl goes to school thinking everything is going to be

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    Executive Order No. 20’s Content In the preamble of Executive Order No. 20, Governor Haslam asserts that “establishing, communicating, complying with, and enforcing a comprehensive ethics policy within the Executive Branch… essential to maintaining public trust in government and ensuring the proper performance of government.” After the perambulatory clauses, Executive Order 20 adheres very closely to the basic format previously suggested that most state government follow. The first operative clause

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    since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders that have directly effected the lives of individuals in this country. One such order was signed on January 25, 2017. This was the “Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” (The White House, 2017). This executive order was marketed as having a positive effect that will “enhance our public safety”. However, the order is having quite the opposite effect within the Latino community.

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    Executive orders have been an influential part of America dating back to George Washington. There are now more than 1300 numbered executive orders since the early 1900s. Not including the ones unnumbered, lost, or not on record (Mott, Ph.D. Jonathan D.). Executive orders influence and affect the executive branch, the Constitution, presidents, and our personal opinion. An executive order is a "presidential directive to a federal government agency or agencies that implement or interpret a federal

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    An executive order issued by President George W. Bush on October 16, 2001 established the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. The Board was created with the goals of coordinating “cooperation with and protection of private sector critical infrastructure, state and local governments critical infrastructure, and supporting programs in corporate and academic organization; protection of federal departments and agencies critical infrastructure; and related national security programs”

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    Trump signs executive order to keep out 'radical Islamic terrorists' In late January 2017, President Trump signed an executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly islamic countries. Trump stated that the order is necessary in order to keep radical terrorists out of the United States, but the main issue regarding this executive order is that many believe that the main cause for it is based on bigotry and not national security. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday

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    In the constitution it states that the Presidents purpose is; to be chief of state, chief executive, chief administrator, chief diplomat, commander in chief, chief legislature, party chief, and chief citizen (The presidents job description). As the chief of legislature, one of the presidents duties is to not only review bills being proposed by congress, and occasionally say they must be revised but to also enact laws affecting the people of the United States immediately, rather than wait for them

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    The requirements necessary by law in order to become president of the United States are as follows; you must be a natural born citizen of the United States, you must be 35 years old, and have been a resident for the last 14 years in the United States. An executive order is a formal announcement or order that comes directly from the president. It is written, signed, and published by the President, and it is considered a lawful instrument however, because it is not actual legislation it does not require

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    in the news about the Executive Order Obama issued on November 20, 2014. Seeing families getting separated, violence raising in the Mexican border, and the increasing Latin population in the U.S. signaled the need for this Executive Order in immigrant communities. Even though the Constitution states that Congress has the duty of writing our Nation’s laws, President Obama declared an Executive Order on Immigration. It is believed to be a political boom for

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