The Far Ranging Powers of Executive Orders of the PresidentMost [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule. While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic." --Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973
Executive Orders
Executive Order 10995 Telecommunications Management Executive Order 10997 -- Electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals Executive Order 10998 -- Food resources, farms, fertilizer, and facilities Executive Order 10999 -- Transportation, the production and distribution of all materials Executive Order 11000 -- Manpower management Executive Order 11001 -- Health and welfare services, and educational programs Executive Order 11002 -- National emergency registration system Executive Order 11003 -- Air travel, airports, operating facilities Executive Order 11004 -- Housing and community facilities Executive Order 11005 -- Interstate Commerce Executive Order 11051 -- Emergency Planning Executive Order 11490 -- Federal departments and agencies Executive Order 12472 -- Telecommunications functions Executive Order 12656 -- Continuity of Government Executive Order 12919 -- National Defense Industrial Preparedness Executive Order 12938 -- Weapons Of Mass Destruction Executive Order 13074 -- Noncombatant Evacuation Operations "The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans... http://www.disastercenter.com/laworder/10998.htm |