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Executive Order 11460 Constitutional Fidelity (+0.29)

Executive Order 11460—Establishing the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Thursday, March 20, 1969
3 min read (534 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Richard Nixon on 1969-03-20, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Establishing the President's Intelligence Advisory Board." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1.
There is hereby established the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, hereinafter referred to as "the Board".
In order to facilitate performance of the Board's functions, the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of all other departments and agencies shall make available to the Board all information with respect to foreign intelligence and related matters which the Board may require for the purpose of carrying out its responsibilities to the President in accordance with the terms of this Order.
Such information made available to the Board shall be given all necessary security protection in accordance with the terms and provisions of applicable laws and regulations.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments 🏛️ Merchants, Importers & Commercial Enterprises 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants 🏛️ Private Citizens & Property Owners 🏛️ Foreign Nations & International Entities
Total Words
534
3,424 characters
Estimated Read Time
3 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
17.4
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.29
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 11460, Richard Nixon (Mar 20, 1969). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-11460-establishing-the-presidents-intelligence-advisory-board.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)