Executive Order 7126 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 7126—Placing Additional Agencies under the Supervision of the Bureau of the Budget

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Monday, August 5, 1935

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1 min read (180 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt on 1935-08-05, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Placing Additional Agencies under the Supervision of the Bureau of the Budget." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.

Constitutional Assessment: This action represents an orderly exercise of Article II administrative discretion, managing the internal machinery and personnel of the executive branch without abridging the ancient liberties of the people.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ The aforesaid agencies and instrumentalities are requested not to incur, from and after September 15, 1935, any obligation for administrative expenses out of any such funds unless estimates for such expenditures shall have been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People

Total Words

180

1,095 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

27.8

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 7126, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Aug 5, 1935). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-7126-placing-additional-agencies-under-the-supervision-the-bureau-the.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the Federal Savings and Loan System, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Administration, the Farm Credit Administration, and the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, which have available for expenditure funds, estimates for expenditure of which are not required under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, to be submitted to the Bureau of the Budget, are requested to submit to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, at such times and in such manner as he shall prescribe, estimates of amounts to be expended for each fiscal year from such funds for administrative expenses. The aforesaid agencies and instrumentalities are requested not to incur, from and after September 15, 1935, any obligation for administrative expenses out of any such funds unless estimates for such expenditures shall have been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. . . .