How did Executive Orders start, where did they come from you ask? Well, executive orders have been issued since 1789, but until 1907, they went mostly undocumented and unannounced.
In 1907, the Department of State (now the State Department) issued a numbering scheme for Executive Orders, retroactively starting with an Executive Order issued by Lincoln in 1862 entitled "An Executive Order Establishing a Provisional Court in Louisiana".
It is from this document that they get their name. They don't appear anywhere in the Constitution. There is a vague grant of "Executive Power" outlined in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution. There is also, in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4, a directive to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed".
Nonetheless, to date there have been 13,537 Executive Orders issued.
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