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Executive Order 10066 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 10066—Including Certain Lands in the Cherokee National Forest

Harry S Truman Harry S Truman
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Wednesday, July 6, 1949
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2 min read (351 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Harry S Truman on 1949-07-06, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Including Certain Lands in the Cherokee National Forest." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Reviewed under the Tenth Amendment and the principle of dual federalism, this order touches upon domains traditionally reserved to the sovereign States. The Framers would caution against any attempt to commandeer state officers or displace local police powers through federal executive fiat.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ Formal executive instruction issued by the President establishing official administrative policy on Including Certain Lands in the Cherokee National Forest.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants 🏛️ Private Citizens & Property Owners
Total Words
351
2,074 characters
Estimated Read Time
2 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
20.4
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 10066, Harry S Truman (Jul 6, 1949). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10066-including-certain-lands-the-cherokee-national-forest.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →
WHEREAS on March 29, 1949, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture entered into an agreement providing for the transfer by the Authority to the Department of the right of possession and all other right, title, and interest which the said Authority may have in or to certain lands therein designated and described in Polk County, Tennessee, so reserved as a part of the Cherokee National Forest, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and subject to the approval thereof by the President of the United States; and WHEREAS I have this day approved the said agreement between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States department of Agriculture; and WHEREAS it appears that such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that their inclusion within the Cherokee National Forest would be in the public interest: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1103, and the act of June 4, 1897, 30 Stat. 34, 36 (16 U.S.C. 471, 473), and as President of the United States, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, I hereby include in and reserve as part of the Cherokee National Forest the following-described lands, such inclusion and reservation to be in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the said agreement of March 29, 1949, between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture: A tract of land lying in the first Civil District of Polk County, State of Tennessee, immediately north of the Ocoee No. 1 Dam, together with a five-room stucco building located thereon and known as Parksville Village Building #26being that portion of the land acquired by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the name of the United States of America from the Tennessee Electric Power Company lying north of and adjacent to the north right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 64 and west of and adjacent to the east line of sec. 23, TIS, R2E HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, July 6, 1949