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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 1986670" data-attributes="member: 5151">Executive Orders are to further a pre-existing law, either from the Constitution or from Congress. If an Executive Order attempts to make new law (such as when President Harry S. Truman ordered that all steel mills be seized and placed under federal control), it is invalid. <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=343&invol=579" target="_blank">Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952)</a></blockquote>