An executive order needs only one decision-maker rather than congressional majority.
Evidence
Because the commission can be created unilaterally by the president, I have to convince only one person—not a majority of the 535 members of Congress. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 517
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the structural contrast between executive-order and legislative pathways — the core mechanism of Brown’s remedy design.
- XREF: connects to: Free government requires that the executive act only under law made by parliamentary deliberation — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2872; A reparations commission could be created unilaterally by presidential executive order — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 517; Legislative power cannot be delegated to hands other than the people’s choice — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 174
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Free government requires that the executive act only under law made by parliamentary deliberation — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2872; A reparations commission could be created unilaterally by presidential executive order — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 517; Legislative power cannot be delegated to hands other than the people’s choice — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 174
Broader Connections
- Legislative power cannot be delegated to hands other than the people’s choice
#complicates(0.72) — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 174