Executive Order 11537 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 11537—Amending the Selective Service Regulations Concerning the Ordering of Registrants for Induction

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Tuesday, June 16, 1970

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1 min read (289 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Richard Nixon on 1970-06-16, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amending the Selective Service Regulations Concerning the Ordering of Registrants for Induction." 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

▪ 604, as amended) I hereby prescribe the following amendment of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments

Total Words

289

1,682 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

11.9

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

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Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 11537, Richard Nixon (Jun 16, 1970). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-11537-amending-the-selective-service-regulations-concerning-the-ordering.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (62 Stat. 604, as amended) I hereby prescribe the following amendment of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10001 of September 17, 1948, No. 10202 of January 12, 1951, No. 10659 of February 15, 1956, No. 10735 of October 17, 1957, No. 10984 of January 5, 1962, No. 11098 of March 14, 1963, No. 11119 of September 10, 1963, No. 11241 of August 26, 1965, No. 11360 of June 30, 1967, No. 11497 of November 26, 1969, and constituting a portion of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations: Section 1631.7, Action by Local Board Upon Receipt of Notice of Call, of Part 1631, Quotas and Calls, is amended by inserting immediately after the word "Provided" where it first appears in subsection (a) of that section the word "further" and by inserting immediately before such word "Provided" the following: "Provided, That notwithstanding Part 1628 or any other provision of these regulations, when a registrant classified in Class I—A or Class I—A—O has refused or otherwise failed to comply with an order of his local board to report for and submit to an armed forces physical examination, he may be selected and ordered to report for induction even though he has not been found acceptable for service in the Armed Forces and a Statement of Acceptability (DD Form 62) has not been mailed to him, and in such a case the armed forces physical examination shall be performed after he has reported for induction as ordered and he shall not be inducted until his acceptability has been satisfactorily determined:" RICHARD NIXON The White House June 16, 1970