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Executive Order

Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland
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Thursday, March 1, 1888
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2 min read (352 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 Grover Cleveland on 1888-03-01, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Executive Order." 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

▪ No person who is appointed to an office by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, and no person who is to be employed merely as a laborer or workman or as a watchman, shall be considered as within this classification.
▪ And it is ordered , That the United States Civil Service Commission thus classified, as provided by clause 2 of Departmental Rule I of the civil-service rules approved February 2, 1888, and in force on and after the date hereof, shall be considered a part of the classified departmental service, and the rules applicable thereto shall be in force therein.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants
Total Words
352
2,074 characters
Estimated Read Time
2 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
17.9
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
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Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order, "Executive Order," Grover Cleveland (Mar 1, 1888). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-227.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →
In the exercise of authority vested in the President by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof and ascertain the fitness of each applicant in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of the service into which he seeks to enter, I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission, now authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by law, shall be arranged in the following classes, viz: Class A, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of less than $1,000 per annum. Class B, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum. Class 1, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum. Class 2, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum. Class 3, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum. Class 4, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum. Class 5, including all persons receiving compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more per annum. No person who is appointed to an office by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, and no person who is to be employed merely as a laborer or workman or as a watchman, shall be considered as within this classification. And it is ordered , That the United States Civil Service Commission thus classified, as provided by clause 2 of Departmental Rule I of the civil-service rules approved February 2, 1888, and in force on and after the date hereof, shall be considered a part of the classified departmental service, and the rules applicable thereto shall be in force therein. GROVER CLEVELAND