Executive orders

April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive order 6102, to “prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates.” (Roosevelt, 1933) It required citizens to deliver gold to a Federal Reserve Bank in exchange for cash. Executive Order 6102 was unconstitutional because due process of law was not granted and citizens did not receive just compensation, but it was necessary to save the economy. Executive Order 6102 was unconstitutional because citizens were not granted

people more often disagree than agree on social and political controversies. Social injustice occurs when these disagreements lead not to civil discourse but instead the oppression of those with opposing ideas. President Donald Trump’s new Executive Order 13769 is one of the most recent social injustices that has been caused due to his presidency. It has affected an estimated 90,000 people and has caused huge protests worldwide (Kessler). With the use of unfair and religion based treatment that

throughout the states is changing life for immigrants today. Obama recently gave two Executive Orders, the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents for Americans), which are helping families resist separation. The big question on Obama’s immigration Executive Orders are if they are within the President’s power. It is Congress’s job to made the laws and the president’s to executive them, but with the creation of DAPA and DACA, many think that Obama is overstepping

My policy problem is that Congress now wants to reverse President Obama’s executive order and this reversal will be a huge step back in the process of the immigration reform that is needed. This reversal of action can be detrimental to many immigrant families by separating families with deportation and delaying families from being reunited after only parts of families were able to come to the United States. The government has been deporting illegal immigrants and the path to citizenship is difficult

Trump Administration #2: Which Executive Orders and Directives Are Doomed?’ written by Robert Chesney focuses on executive orders to be reinstated or even repealed by president elect Donald J. Trump. With the approaching inauguration of the United State’s new president comes the predicted changes to the government. The party of president has changed from democrat to republican and with that comes several topics of disagreement. This author predicts 5 executive orders and directives that the president

Our individual identity is greatly constructed by how others perceive us. In the poem, "Response to Executive Order 9066" written by Dwight Okita is about how american identity has more to do with how you experience culture than with where your family came from. In the story "Mericans" written by Sandra Cisnero's is about the narrators american identity contrasts with the awful grandmothers strong mexican roots but the americans judge the narrators based on her looks. Though the speakers in Okita's

Throughout history the uses of executive orders have always been controversial. The form, substance and numbers of presidential orders have changed drastically in the US Presidency history. They are sometimes favored by the public, and other times they can be despised because they are related to really controversial issues. George Washington’s first executive order was believed to be more of a request than an order. The order asked the heads of various federal departments “to impress me with a full

We often hear people talk about Executive orders. Whether it’s on the news, the classroom, family members, friends; we have heard the term repetitively. Yet, most people don’t know the definition of executive orders. What are executive orders? How did executive orders come about? Historically speaking, one can agree that Executive orders are as ancient as the constitution. Though Executive orders are not specifically mentioned in the United States Constitution; the second article of the Constitution

Executive Order 12333 In order to extend power and responsibilities of the US Inelegance, on December 4, 1981, President Ronald Regan signed Executive Order 12333. The order empowered CIA and obliged other US federal agencies to fully cooperate with the CIA requests for information. The order is known as the United States Intelligence Activities. The Executive Order 12333 was amended by Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, which was signed by President George

The Executing order 9066 Some of the Japanese had come down to America to give their children a better life and so they don’t have to be limited to the to just the low or mid-class although when they go to the states they were discriminated against because they were from Japan and because they didn’t follow the same culture as all the other Americans. Even though they should’ve had their human rights those rights were completely revoked from them after the Pearl Harbor bombing, in which president