Executive Order 13024 Constitutional Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 13024—Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs

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Thursday, November 7, 1996

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1 min read (139 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 William J. Clinton on 1996-11-07, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.

Constitutional Assessment: An early statesman would view this measure favorably under Article II, Section 3 (the Take Care Clause). The President operates strictly within the ambit of executing established laws and supervising departmental subordinates, respecting the supremacy of the legislative branch without fabricating novel statutory obligations.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ Executive Order 12015 of October 26, 1977, is amended as follows: (a) in section 2 by striking "career or career-conditional" both times it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "term, career, or career-conditional"; (b) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and (c) by inserting after section 3 the following new section: "Sec.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People

Total Words

139

869 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

14.2

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.23

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 13024, William J. Clinton (Nov 7, 1996). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-13024-amending-executive-order-12015-relating-competitive-appointments.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 3301 and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Executive Order 12015 of October 26, 1977, is amended as follows: (a) in section 2 by striking "career or career-conditional" both times it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "term, career, or career-conditional"; (b) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and (c) by inserting after section 3 the following new section: "Sec. 4. Students converted to term appointment under section 2 may subsequently be converted noncompetitively to a career or career-conditional appointment before the term appointment expires." William J. Clinton The White House, November 7, 1996. [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 8, 1996]