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These Restorative Executive Orders Should Not Be Necessary

These Restorative Executive Orders Should Not Be Necessary
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship at the White House, on Jan. 20, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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You can scour the founding documents all day and find very little support for government-by-executive-order. It was not supposed to be this way. It should not have to be this way. The president under the Constitution has a very limited role.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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