James Madison warned of the tyrannical danger when legislative, executive, and judicial powers accumulate in the same hands, but that tendency toward centralized and unseparated power is most pronounced for the president, and EOs are his chief means of exercising undivided power
Paul Begala, blithely described the process and power of modern EOs as a “Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kind of cool.”
For the record, I can't stand Begala.