Our Founding Fathers never intended for a President to have ultimate power, they did not want a king or dictator. The Constitution was created to give the United States 3 distinct branches of government, to create a check and balance system. This included the Executive Branch (the President), the Legislative Branch (House and Senate), and the Judicial Branch (the Supreme Court). Unfortunatly like all things here on earth the original intent has been skewed throughout our history.

U.S. Presidents have issued executive orders since 1789. Although there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits executive orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and the statement "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" in Article II, Section 3. Most executive orders are orders issued by the President to US executive officers to help direct their operation, the result of failing to comply being removal from office. (Wikipedia)

Executive orders gained more use as time went on and the debate continues whether Executive orders should be utilized, but the fact is, they are. Now an Executive Order can be used for the good of our country, or it can be abused for the harm of our country.

In June 2007 President Bush signed an Executive Order that prohibited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, including creating stem cells for the purpose of research and destruction. In essence: this Exec. Order stopped the use of tax payer dollars for the destruction of life. President-elect Obama is planning to revoke this Executive Order. Now some say that the greater good is served by doing medical experiments on embryonic stem cells, but the greater good never gives us the right to create life for its experimentation and destruction. Medical experimentation on living creation has been used by some of the most vile and determental governments in history (Nazi Germany & Communist Russia).

You can read the executive order here and decide for yourself if overturning this ban is moral or not. I tend to believe it is immoral and I do not believe my tax dollars should be used for this, it is indeed a slippery slope:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070620-6.html

Another Executive Order that a President Obama would revoke is the Restoration of the Mexico City Policy. Here is the short explanation:

"The Mexico City Policy announced by President Reagan in 1984 required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds, that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations". This policy was in effect until it was rescinded on January 22, 1993.

It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions or advocate or actively promote abortion, either here or abroad. It is therefore my belief that the Mexico City Policy should be restored. Accordingly, I hereby rescind the "Memorandum for the Acting Administrator of the Agency for International Development, Subject: AID Family Planning Grants/Mexico City Policy," dated January 22, 1993, and I direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to reinstate in full all of the requirements of the Mexico City Policy in effect on January 19, 1993. "

So again our tax dollars would be used to destroy life and not only life in this country, but also life in other countries.

I believe that revoking either of these acts is evil on its face, as it destroys life and despite my disagreement with the continued use of Executive Orders, we need to speak out and stand up for those who cannot speak up and stand up for themselves.

So how do we accomplish this? Well, write to Pres. Elect Obama and let him know you do not wish your tax dollars to be used for this purpose. Contact your House and Senate members and tell them the same thing. Speak to those you know and ask them to do the same. Speak to your friends, coworkers, church members, small group members. Belligerence and anger are not needed to make your point. It is likely that many people are not aware of the Executive orders in the first place, but again would not want their tax dollars to used in such a way. We need to speak truth in love. Much of the division in this country is not because people disagree with us, it is because we are all too often caught up in our lives to see what is happening around us. We don't pay attention to politics, because we find it boring or think again it does not affect our families.