Question

Research three executive orders (three total from the last five predidents only). Tell the president that gave the order, the order number, and what the order read.

Answer 1

Some samples of executive orders:

President Donald Trump

• Executive Order 13769, titled, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" - signed on January 27, 2017.
• The order was meant to ban immigration from countries that the administration deemed security threats. They were all Muslim-majority nations. The order ran into legal difficulty because it seemed to be showing a religious bias. It was replaced by Executive Order 13780 to try to meet some of those legal challenges.

President Barack Obama

• Executive Order 13677 - "Climate-Resilient International Development" - signed on September 23, 2014
• The order expressed an intention to "safeguard security and economic growth, protect the sustainability and long-term durability of U.S. development work in vulnerable countries, and promote sound decision-making and risk management." It went on to speak of measures meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to "prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change."

President George W. Bush

• Executive Order 13223 - "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty and Delegating Certain Authorities to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation " - signed September 14, 2001.
• This order was issued shortly after the 9-11 terrorist attacks against the United States. it put into motion measures to deal with the threats the country saw itself facing at that time.

Answer 2

An executive order is a decision that is made by the President of the United States and with which the federal government will manage the tasks that are inherent to it. This power, given to the President by the U.S Constitution, through sources such as Article II, allows the President to issue mandates that are considered law and that establish the actions that the executive branch and other institutions from the federal government will take during that President´s time in office. It is also part of this process the possibility of the judicial branch to review and even overturn an excutive order if it does not adjusts to the laws established by the U.S Constitution.

The first example of an executive order comes from President George H. W. Bush on February 3, 1989, with which Bush established that the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States was an international and pubic organization that was covered by the International Organizations Immunities Act. The order number was 12669.

The second example is executive order 12836, given by President Bill Clinton on February 1993, and which established the parameters for the possibility of revoking executive orders on Federal contracting and that do not serve a public purpose. Through this order, President Clinton revoked another two orders: 12818 of 1992 and 12800 also of 1992.

The third example is from President Donald Trump. The number of it is #13857 and which was issued on January 25th, 2019. This executive order relates to the actions that the U.S government will need to take, additional to the ones that had been established in previous ones, in order to address the National Emergency in Venezuela.