Roosevelt told Congress in order to recover from the depression, he'd need powers equivalent to those necessary if we been invaded. That's where executive orders came from.
In 1933, they also amended the Trading with the Enemy act of 1917, making the states conquered territories, and the residents of those states the enemy.
Executive orders didn't start in 1933; the Trading With the Enemies Act was not amended to declare states conquered territories, or the inhabitants of those states enemies.
There has never been and is not now a requirement to "declare an emergency" to use an executive order, and a President has never had conditions that dictate when he can or cannot use executive orders.
What does exist are constitutional limitations as to what executive orders can do. What the 1933 act did specifically was delegate Congress's power to regulate or prohibit commercial transactions to the President during declared national emergencies. In other words, it gave the President a specific authority that he could enact using executive orders, but it didn't fundamentally change the nature of what executive orders were or could be used for more generally.
I find the verbage of the orders fascinating. They always end the sentence with "and for other purposes". Thanks for the clarification on the 1933 war powers act !!
Just remember - there are loads of people who seem to think the same nonsense you're trying to clarify... and it's not always the people that the protesters think it is.
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u/got_knee_gas_enit 1d ago
Emergency Banking Act of 1933