A "legal" way for the president to gain powers that Congress already has, to make or change laws that
the Constitution forbids one single person to have, disrupting the whole
checks and balances intended by the Constitution.
Person A: Hey, did you hear the
dictator changed certain things about the
Affordable Care Act?
Person B: I thought that was Congress' job?
Person A: It is but the
Dictator used executive action to
change it without Congress.
