Two to go: Public unions and EOs

TWO TO GO

“ Government workers were making good salaries in 1962 when President Kennedy lifted, by executive order (so much for democracy), the federal ban on government unions. Civil service regulations and similar laws had guaranteed good working conditions for generations. The argument for public unionization wasn't moral, economic or intellectual. It was rankly political. Jonah Goldberg: Public unions must go ” And not just public unions must go. THE SEPARATION OF POWERS "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person." --Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu1 "The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." --James Madison, Federalist 46 "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." --U.S. Constitution, Art. I, § 1 "The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." --U.S. Constitution, Art. II, § 1, cl. 1 Executive Orders should be used only to facilitate quick action during a national crisis, and then only as one time directives.  In any event, all EO's should expire after 90 days. What were we thinking to allow this?