Executive Order 10889 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 10889—Amendment of Executive Order 10530 Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Vested in or Subject to the Approval of the President

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Wednesday, October 5, 1960

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2 min read (466 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1960-10-05, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amendment of Executive Order 10530 Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Vested in or Subject to the Approval of the President." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Evaluated against the Fifth Amendment, this action touches upon property or economic rights. An early statesman would insist upon strict adherence to due process of law and the constitutional guarantee that private holdings shall not be encumbered or taken for public purposes without just compensation and lawful process.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1.

▪ 10530 of May 10, 1954, entitled "Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Vested in or Subject to the Approval of the President", as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end of section 1 thereof new paragraphs (p), (q), and (r), reading as follows: "(p) The authority vested in the President by section 45(a) of the Alaska Omnibus Act, approved June 25, 1959 (73 Stat.

▪ 6, shall be prepared in accordance with uniform policies and coordinated within the executive branch of the Government: Provided, that such procedures shall be published in the Federal Register." SEC.

▪ 152) are hereby superseded: (1) two letters to the Secretary of the Interior dated February 19, 1960, and June 1, 1960, respectively, (2) letter to the Administrator, General Services Administration, dated March 23, 1960, and (3) letter to the Attorney General dated March 23, 1960.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants

Total Words

466

2,784 characters

Estimated Read Time

2 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

18.1

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

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Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 10889, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Oct 5, 1960). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10889-amendment-executive-order-10530-providing-for-the-performance.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10530 of May 10, 1954, entitled "Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Vested in or Subject to the Approval of the President", as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end of section 1 thereof new paragraphs (p), (q), and (r), reading as follows: "(p) The authority vested in the President by section 45(a) of the Alaska Omnibus Act, approved June 25, 1959 (73 Stat. 152), (1) to determine that any function performed by the Federal Government in Alaska has been terminated or curtailed by the Federal Government and that performance of such function or substantially the same function has been or will be assumed by the State of Alaska, and (2) until July 1, 1964, in his discretion, to transfer and convey to the State of Alaska, without reimbursement, any property or interest in property, real or personal, situated in Alaska and as otherwise described in section 45(a): Provided, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to affect the authority delegated to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order No. 10857 of December 29, 1959, with respect to the transfer and conveyance of property described in section 2 of that order. "(q) The authority vested in the President by section 5(e) of the act of March 18, 1959, providing for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, 73 Stat. 6, (1) to receive the reports required by the provisions of that section, and (2) to determine that certain land or property is no longer needed by the United States. "(r) The authority vested in the President by section 40 of the Hawaii Omnibus Act, approved July 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 422), to prescribe procedures to assure that reports submitted pursuant to section 5(e) of the act of March 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 6, shall be prepared in accordance with uniform policies and coordinated within the executive branch of the Government: Provided, that such procedures shall be published in the Federal Register." SEC. 2. Without prejudice to any action heretofore taken pursuant thereto, the following-described letters of the President, which authorized certain officers to exercise, to the extent therein described, the authority conferred upon the President by section 45(a) of the Alaska Omnibus Act (73 Stat. 152) are hereby superseded: (1) two letters to the Secretary of the Interior dated February 19, 1960, and June 1, 1960, respectively, (2) letter to the Administrator, General Services Administration, dated March 23, 1960, and (3) letter to the Attorney General dated March 23, 1960. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, October 5, 1960.