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From: Tim Stowell <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] CP Motion
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:22:18 -0400


At 07:08 AM 4/30/01 -0500, Ms. Timm wrote:
>At 12:02 AM 4/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>This motion is declared out of order - with respect to paragraph 3
>>concerning Executive Order 2000-F-1. From my reading regarding Executive
>>Orders they can not be overturned or revised except with another Executive
>>Order.
>
>Please cite your source(s) as I have been unable to find anything in or
>around RRO thatsays any such thing.

Since so many members of the Project look at the US government, Constitution,
Bill of Rights and so on as a model of how they think the Project should be
governed, so too did I look at the Executive Orders that the President makes
from time to time.

Executive Orders issued by the President can not be overruled by Congress
although supposedly they can be by some courts? Executive Orders have the
rule of law just as much as laws passed by Congress. We may or may not
like them but they are just as valid.

Yes, I'm not the President but then neither are you all the Court nor
Congress.
You are more like the President's cabinet - at least that was the idea I
believe Megan had in mind when she first proposed an ADVISORY board instead of
a Board of Directors.

In the intervening time the AB seems to have evolved to the point, at least
in its own mind, where it wishes to be the Supreme Court of the Project
handing down from the mountain edicts of this and that, while most of the
Project doesn't give a flying fig what the AB does or doesn't do.

Off my soapbox.

Tim

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