I hereby designate Louis N. Robinson as Chairman of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board, created by Executive Order No. 7194 of September 26, 1935, in lieu of Joseph N. Ulman who has requested that he be relieved of the duties of the chairmanship of the Board.
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Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 12, 1936, this order concerns Designation of Louis N. Robinson as Chairman of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board. I hereby designate Louis N. Robinson as Chairman of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board, created by Executive Order No. 7194 of September 26, 1935, in lieu of Joseph N. Ulman who has requested that he be relieved of the duties of the chairmanship of the Board. Executive Order No. 7202 of September 28, 1935, is amended accordingly.
I hereby designate Louis N. Robinson as Chairman of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board, created by Executive Order No. 7194 of September 26, 1935, in lieu of Joseph N. Ulman who has requested that he be relieved of the duties of the chairmanship of the Board.
Executive Order No. 7202 of September 28, 1935, is amended accordingly.
Evaluating this order against the constitutional debates of 1787 and the limits of Article II executive power.
"When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority."
Separation of Powers & Legislative Primacy
"Power is of an encroaching nature, and it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it." — Federalist No. 48 (1788)
Madison would view this order with watchful scrutiny. Operating in the 'Zone of Twilight' where Congress is silent, each such directive establishes an administrative precedent that steadily expands the executive perimeter at the expense of legislative primacy.
The Energetic Executive & Unified Command
"A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government." — Federalist No. 70 (1788)
Hamilton would view this directive as the natural and indispensable functioning of administrative leadership. Without the power to coordinate agencies, manage personnel, and resolve operational ambiguities, the modern presidency would be reduced to an impotent figurehead.
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.
Operates within delegated statutory execution without modifying legislative appropriations or taxing powers.
Directs internal executive branch machinery, agency workflows, and federal personnel.
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 order relies on inherent Article II executive discretion, civil service management, or foreign diplomacy where Congress has neither expressly approved nor prohibited action.
This order operates within Justice Jackson’s Zone of Twilight, resting upon concurrent presidential authority or congressional silence.
I hereby designate Louis N. Robinson as Chairman of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board, created by Executive Order No. 7194 of September 26, 1935, in lieu of Joseph N. Ulman who has requested that he be relieved of the duties of the chairmanship of the Board. Executive Order No. 7202 of September 28, 1935, is amended accordingly. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
November 12, 1936.
2 orders cited directly in this text, plus related actions from this administration.
I hereby establish an agency within the Government to be known as the "Prison Industries Reorganization Administration." The governing body of said Prison Industries Reorganization Administration shall be a Prison Industries Reorganization Board consisting of five members to be…
Franklin D. Roosevelt I hereby appoint as members of the Prison Industries Reorganization Board, created by Executive Order of September 26, 1935, establishing the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration, the following: Joseph N. Ulman, Chairman Louis N. Robinson Linton N. Collins Gustav…
Franklin D. Roosevelt There is transferred from the Resettlement Administration to the Secretary of the Interior (a) all the real and personal property or any interest therein, together with all contracts, options, rights and interests, books, papers, memoranda, records, etc., acquired by the…
Franklin D. Roosevelt I hereby designate Orange, Texas, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 21 (Sabine), effective this date.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Exempt Davis B. Levis from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until December 1, 1937.
Franklin D. Roosevelt The administrative acts of the Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, in the exercise and discharge of the functions, duties, and authority conferred upon the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration by Executive Order No. 7057 of May 28, 1935, and…
Franklin D. Roosevelt Exec. Order No. 7488 (Nov. 12, 1936), https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-7488-designation-louis-n-robinson-chairman-the-prison-industries.
