I hereby designate Morehead City, North Carolina, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina), effective this date.
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Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 30, 1936, this order concerns Designating Morehead City, North Carolina, as a Customs Port of Entry. I hereby designate Morehead City, North Carolina, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina), effective this date.
I hereby designate Morehead City, North Carolina, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina), effective this date.
Evaluating this order against the constitutional debates of 1787 and the limits of Article II executive power.
"When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate."
Separation of Powers & Legislative Primacy
"The constitutional magistracy was designed not to invent policy, but to be the faithful instrument of the laws passed by the people's representatives." — Speech in the First Congress (1789)
Madison would approve the structural posture of this order. The President acts strictly in subordination to statutory authority granted under Article II, Section 3 ("take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"). The checks and balances hold firm because the policy origin remains with the legislature.
The Energetic Executive & Unified Command
"The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength must be under the direction of the single hand of the Executive." — Federalist No. 74 (1788)
Hamilton would forcefully champion executive discretion here. For foreign entanglements, commerce defense, and national security, deliberative assemblies are too slow and faction-ridden. A unified, energetic Executive exercising swift command is precisely what the Philadelphia Convention intended for national preservation.
Bill of Rights, Due Process & 10th Amendment
"The president will be surrounded by flatterers and sycophants... and the great powers of the executive will gradually absorb the liberties of the people." — Cato IV (Anti-Federalist, 1787)
The Anti-Federalist prism advises continuous democratic vigilance. Even routine administrative directives aggregate centralized federal power away from town halls and state assemblies toward a distant executive apparatus.
An objective audit measuring potential separation-of-powers tension against the United States Constitution and established Supreme Court doctrine.
Administers commerce or fiscal programs requiring ongoing statutory delegation and legislative oversight.
Exercises standard supervisory executive authority to faithfully execute existing statutes.
Confined strictly to internal federal jurisdiction, federal property, or direct military command.
Focuses on internal governmental operations with no direct impairment of private rights or property.
The President operates strictly as the constitutional Chief Executive, carrying out policy established by Congress with strong statutory backing.
This order operates in close harmony with statutory authority and standard Article II supervisory execution.
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of August 1, 1914, 38 Stat. 609, 623 (U.S.C., title 19, sec. 2), I hereby designate Morehead City, North Carolina, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina), effective this date. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
October 30, 1936.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Exec. Order No. 7482 (Oct. 30, 1936), https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-7482-designating-morehead-city-north-carolina-customs-port-entry.
