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Originally Posted by Barnard17
Well, no. Executive Orders essentially act as laws until they're either deemed by the Supreme Court to be complicit with existing legislation (which requires someone to take the Executive Order to court) or to be ratified/denied by both houses of Congress in a relevant bill (by my understanding) each of which takes time. So although functionally in recent times there hasn't been a problem that doesn't mean the potential doesn't exist. There's also the subject of the wide rein of power that can be exerted by cabinet officials (such as this recent climate change being a health issue and the openings that creates for Obama without having to go through Congress) although that's equally available to the Parliamentary system.
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What Lateralus is concerned with is that the President would be elected Ayatollah and that isn't the case. Executive orders, in the past, have been enforcement of the existing law.
If they ever had done anything overreaching Congress would eliminate any threat, their poll numbers would plummet, and the congress could open the trial of impeachment.
An American President is not a king. But about Australia...