Few things illustrate the fact that the Constitution is a dead letter more than the use of executive orders by the President. Now Obama, the new Maximum Leader, plans a slew of new executive orders to overturn the decrees of the previous Maximum Leader. One would think that the legislative branch might have some say in legislating, but not in this republic. Of course, as Charles’s blog below notes, the legislative branch has been a primary architect of it’s own irrelevance. Update: MM writes that EO’s have their place, since even in the days of Jefferson, the president had to … Continue reading The evil of executive orders