Why Do Government Use Executive Orders?

Since the framers' vision set the stage for the design of our governing bodies, the presidency has developed and utilized various types of directives from within that office (Feldman, 2010). Currently, the most common are presidential proclamations and executive orders. Presidential written declarations are Executive Orders (EO), Presidential Proclamations are oral directives.

Article II gives inherent powers allowing the exercising of powers to the President. Congress does have an innate ability to regulate the President's use of written directives in a structured and limited manner. There is no available language within Article II of the U.S. Constitution; however, it does state, “[t]he executive power shall be vested in a President….”
It is often challenging to utilize them efficiently. The difficulty is inherent in the complexity of making the rules and then implementing the orders as presented by each proclamation and or Executive Order. “The environmental protection and sustainability, occupational health and safety, and economic performance,” are part of the rulemaking process (p. 83, Beckett, 2010). Problems are inherent in that rules can be changed as swiftly as the rules have been put in place. Under considerable pressure from partisan politics, interest groups, and individual agencies the administrative rule is continuously threatened with the change of office and the each newly elected administration. An aggressive use of this power may appear or even be stated that it is necessary for the modern President to project strength and dominance as leader of the free world. The auspice is that this is required to manage the most massive bureaucracy in the world so to many this may appear to be the only option. The question must remain, if our framing fathers intended this to be the case why did we not have the specific language detailed within the Constitution that they fought to