Greg Abbott's Proposed Constitutional Amendments

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Expressed within the US Constitution is Congress' authority to write laws, while the Executive Branch is firmly restricted to enacting the laws. However, in 200 years' time, Executive power has consistently enacted arbitrary laws, and governed with unconstitutional agencies and czars. Greg Abbott's proposed Constitutional amendments recalibrate federal power by banning the executive branch from writing laws. The history of executive overreach is long and illustrious. Unprecedented powers, cabinet vocations, and bureaucratic government positions are added with every new administration. Established in Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution, the Cabinet began as a four-man position; now 15 distinct cabinet members are approved by Congress