EOs
Judiciary
Israel
27 since 1789
Founding Fathers Influences and Decisions
100

Executive Orders are supposed to be based on this.

existing law 

100

The entity that can rule an EO unconstitutional

SCOTUS

100

A public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.

Belfour Declaration

100

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The First Amendment

100

The three branches of the United States federal government

executive, legislative, judicial

200

Where we find the Constitutional reasoning from which Executive Orders are derived.

Article II, section III

200

These federal courts have juries.

U.S. District Courts

200

1922: Recognizing "the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine," Great Britain was called upon by the League of Nations to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine

The British Mandate for Palenstine

200

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

The Sixteenth Amendment

200

The three types of government represented in the US mixed government theory established in the federal government's branches

monarchy, democracy, aristocracy/oligarchy

300

The entity that can pass a law making it difficult or even impossible to carry out an EO

Congress (legislative branch)

300

The circuit court that includes California

The Ninth Circuit Court

300

In the 1970s, following the six day war in 1967, Israel gave this to Egypt in return for this.

Sinai Peninsula, peace agreement 

300

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Fourth Amendment

300

The French philosopher Montesquieu wrote this concerning a balance of powers.

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty."

400

The ten words, as written, where the reasoning for executive orders are derived.

"He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"

400

These federal courts hear appeals from the district courts

 U.S. Courts of Appeals (circuit courts)

400

Israel completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip in this year.

2005

400

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The Thirteenth Amendment

400

This 17th century philosopher John Locke wrote of the natural law concept of this.

unalienable rights

500

“The executive order is recorded in the ____________ _____________ and is considered _________, which means it can be enforced in the same way as if Congress had enacted it as law” (history.com).

Federal Register, binding

500

two examples of SCOTUS ruling an EO unconstitutional as heard in lecture

Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War

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Truman putting steel mills under federal control when on strike during the Korean War

500

Palestinians in Gaza voted Hamas into power in a legal election in this year.

2006

500

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

The Nineteenth Amendment

500

The ancient Isaraelites had a representative government under this man

Moses

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