ML> NP> I still don't see the power to issue orders.
ML>
ML>   Article II, section 1 of the Constitution gives the president
ML>executive  powers. I believe authority to issue orders comes from
ML>there; he must have  the authority to carry out his executive
ML>responsibilities.
Article II, Section 1 goes through the selection of a President, and the
qualifications of the person, but discusses nothing of the powers of the
office.  Sections 2 and 3 cover that.
II 2 1 Designating the President as Commander in Chief of the Army and
Navy, empowering the President to require written opinion of principal
officers in each executive department if related to their office, and
the power to grant reprieves and pardons.
II 2 2 Empowering the President to make treaties, provided 2/3 the
Senators present concur; to nominate, and with the advise and consent of
the Senate, appoint ambassadors, judges and such, unless Congress make
others laws excluding themselves from this with regards to inferior
officers.
II 2 3 Empowering the President to fill vacancies in the Senate until
the end of the next session.
Nothing is in these powers mentions executive orders.
The closest I can find is in II 3 where "he may, on extraordinary
occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of
disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he
may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper"
and IV 4 where "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this
Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them
against invasion; and on application of the Legislature, or of the
executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic
violence."
But again, neither of those are permanent executive order empowering.
They are extraordinary circumstances situations only.
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