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Executive orders / Derek Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: How government works (Cavendish Square)Publisher: New York : Cavendish Square, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781502640604
  • 1502640600
  • 9781502640598
  • 1502640597
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
What are executive orders? -- Who issues executive orders? -- Executive orders in action -- What happens next -- Glossary.
Summary: The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 352.235 M647 Available 33111009679776
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.

The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What are executive orders? -- Who issues executive orders? -- Executive orders in action -- What happens next -- Glossary.

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