Mr. Speaker. the constitutional issues involving the Presidents executive orders on amnesty far transcend the issue of illegal immigration. The Presidents action strikes at the very heart of our separation of powers. The Constitution reserves to Congress alone the power to enact and alter law. and it charges the President with the responsibility to faithfully execute those laws. If the President can seize legislative power in this manner and then boast to an audience that he. himself. has changed the law. then the separation of powers becomes meaningless. and our constitutional Republic will have crossed a very bright line that separates a nation of laws from the unhappy societies where rulers boast that the "law is in their mouths." If this precedent stands. every succeeding President.
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