The framers wanted a strong and independent chief executive [remember, there had not been one under the Articles], but they did not want to create a monarch [like the one we had rid ourselves of in the American Revolution]. ... Executive Orders have part of our government ever since President Jefferson issued an executive order purchasing the French holding in North America (the Louisiana Purchase). ... Roosevelt used an executive order to send Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII. ...

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