Executive Order 7127 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 7127—Transferring to the Secretary of the Interior Control of Lands and Improvements in Certain Military Reservations

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Tuesday, August 6, 1935

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1 min read (264 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 1935-08-06, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Transferring to the Secretary of the Interior Control of Lands and Improvements in Certain Military Reservations." 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

▪ Formal executive instruction issued by the President establishing official administrative policy on Transferring to the Secretary of the Interior Control of Lands and Improvements in Certain Military Reservations.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments 🏛️ Merchants, Importers & Commercial Enterprises 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants

Total Words

264

1,621 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

29.6

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 7127, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Aug 6, 1935). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-7127-transferring-the-secretary-the-interior-control-lands-and.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

ALASKA Whereas certain authority and duties of the Board of Road Commissioners in the Territory of Alaska and the Secretary of War were, by the act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 446, transferred to the Department of the Interior, and the said Board was directed to turn over to the Secretary of the Interior all equipment and other property utilized by it; and Whereas the Secretary of War from time to time assigned to the use of the Alaska Road Commission the hereinafter-named military reservations which had been set apart by Executive orders in connection with the Washington-Alaska Military, Cable, and Telegraph System; and Whereas the Secretary of War states, and I find, that such reservations are no longer required for military purposes: Now, Therefore , by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 5, 1834 (23 Stat. 103), it is ordered that the lands and the improvements thereon in the following-named reservations be, and they are hereby, placed under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby authorized to reserve for the Alaska Road Commission the reservations, or such parts thereof, as may be needed by the said Commission, and to dispose of the remaining lands under the said act of July 5, 1884, or as may be otherwise provided by law: Beaver Dam, Chestochena, Copper Center, Donnelly's, Gakona, Grundler, Gulkana, Ketchumstock, Livengood, McCallum's, McGrath, Mentasta, Paxson's, Richardson, Salcha, Teikheil, Tonsina, Valdezs to Fairbanks Right-of-way, Haggard, and Workman's, Alaska. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, August 6, 1935.