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Executive Orders Historical Archive
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Official portrait of John F. Kennedy
35th President
Democrat Terms: 1961-1963

John F. Kennedy

Orders Tracked
214
Avg Words / Order
747
Avg Read Time
~4 min
Avg Sentiment
+0.02
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Youngstown Separation of Powers

1952 Standard

Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:

29.4%
Zone 1 (63)
Statutory Authorization
58.9%
Zone 2 (126)
Zone of Twilight
11.7%
Zone 3 (25)
Lowest Ebb / Friction
Washington Rate Multiplier: 107.0× Washington Baseline

⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism

214 Scored
19 (9%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
170 (79%)
Constitutional Neutral
Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals
25 (12%)
Friction & Overreach
Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings

Executive Orders Issued (214)showing the 30 most recent

EO 11127 Nov 9, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11127—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Florida East Coast Railway Company and Certain of its Employees

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate this dispute. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 2m
EO 11126 Nov 1, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11126—Establishing a Committee and a Council Relating to the Status of Women

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

PART I--INTERDEPARTMENTAL C0MMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN SECTION 101. (a) There is hereby established the interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee"), which shall be composed of the Secretary of Labor, who shall be the…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 11125 Oct 29, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11125—Delegating Authority of the President Under Sections 205 and 208 of Title 18 of the United States Code, Relating to Conflicts of Interest

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

As used in this order, "department" means an executive department, "agency" means an independent agency or establishment or a government corporation and "head of an agency" means, in the case of more than one person, the chairman or comparable member of such agency. SEC. 2.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 11124 Oct 28, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11124—Enlarging the Membership of the President's Advisory Council on the Arts

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Executive Order No. 11112 of June 12, 1963, headed "Establishing the President's Advisory Council on the Arts's" is hereby amended by substituting for subsection (b) of Section 1 thereof the following: The Council will be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 11123 Oct 18, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11123—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10853, Relating to Various Allowances to Certain Government Personnel on Foreign Duty

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Executive Order No. 10853 of November 27, 1959, headed "Delegating the authority of the President with respect to various allowances to certain Government personnel on foreign duty," as amended, is hereby amended by substituting for Section 2(c) thereof the following: "(c) The…

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 1m
EO 11122 Oct 16, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11122—Establishing the Rural Development Committee

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

There is hereby created the Rural Development Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") which shall consist of the following members, all ex officio: the Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be the chairman of the Committee, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 11121 Oct 9, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11121—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the United Air Lines, Inc., and Certain of its Employees

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate this dispute. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of airline employees or any carrier.

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 1m
EO 11120 Oct 2, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11120—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10152, Relating to Incentive Pay for Hazardous Duty, Executive Order No. 10168, Relating to Pay for Sea Duty and Duty at Certain Places, and Executive Order No. 10204, Relating to Basic Allowances for Quarters

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Executive Order No. 10152 of August 17, 1950, as amended, is further amended as follows: (a) Section 6 is amended to read as follows: SEC. 6.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 6m
EO 11119 Sep 10, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11119—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10735 of October 17, 1957, No. 10984 of January 5, 1962, and No. 11098 of March 14, 1963, and constituting portions of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of…

John F. Kennedy
High School • 1m
EO 11118 Sep 10, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11118—Providing Assistance for Removal of Unlawful Obstructions of Justice in the State of Alabama

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all appropriate steps to remove obstructions of justice in the State of Alabama, to enforce the laws of the United States within that State, including any orders of United States Courts relating to the enrollment and…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 11117 Aug 13, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11117—Establishing an Interagency Committee on International Athletics

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

. There is hereby established the Interagency Committee on International Athletics. The Committee shall collect, exchange, and review information concerning amateur athletic matters that might tend to affect the foreign relations or general welfare of the United States.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 3m
EO 11116 Aug 5, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11116—Prescribing Rates of Charges for Certain Hospitalization and Dispensary Services and Delegating Authority to Prescribe Such Rates

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

Rates. Rates of charges for hospitalization and dispensary services are hereby prescribed, under the last sentence of Section 4 of the Act of May 10, 1948, c. 95, 57 Stat. 81 (24 U.S.C. 34), and for the purposes of that section, as follows: (1) Inpatient care, per diem: (i) For…

John F. Kennedy
High School • 2m
EO 11115 Jul 4, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11115—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Pullman Company, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, the New York Central System, and the Soo Line Railroad Company and Certain of Their Employees

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 11114 Jun 22, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.29)

Executive Order 11114—Extending the Authority of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity

📜 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

Each executive department and agency which administers a program involving Federal financial assistance shall, insofar as it may be consistent with law, require as a condition for the approval of any grant, contract, loan, insurance or guarantee there under which may involve a…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 10m
EO 11113 Jun 13, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11113—Amendment of Executive Order No. 11075, as Amended, Relating to the Administration of the Trade Agreements Program

📜 Art. II §2: Diplomatic & Foreign Policy Prerogative

Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (28 F.R. 473), as amended by Executive Order No. 11106 of April 18, 1963 (28 F.R. 3911) be, and it is hereby, further amended by substituting for subsection (c) of Section 2 thereof (48 CFR § 1.2(c)) the following: "(c) There shall…

John F. Kennedy
High School • 1m
EO 11111 Jun 11, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11111—Providing Assistance for the Removal of Obstructions of Justice and Suppression of Unlawful Combinations Within the State of Alabama

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all appropriate steps to remove obstructions of justice in the State of Alabama, to enforce the laws of the United States within that State, including the orders of the United States District Court for the Northern…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 11110 Jun 4, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11110—Amendment of Executive Order No. 10289 as Amended, Relating to the Performance of Certain Functions Affecting the Department of the Treasury

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended -- (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): "(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 11109 May 27, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11109—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Estate, and Gift Tax Returns by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Any income, excess-profits, estate, or gift tax return for the years 1947 to 1963, inclusive, shall, during the Eighty-eighth Congress, be open to inspection by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, for…

John F. Kennedy
High School • 1m
EO 11108 May 22, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11108—Delegating Authority Under the International Wheat Agreement Act of 1949, as Amended, to the Secretary of Agriculture

📜 10th Amend: Intergovernmental Federalism Cooperation

Scope. The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as "Secretary") shall exercise the power, authority, and discretion conferred on the President by the Act, and to this end the Secretary is authorized, among other things, to: (a) Make available or cause to be made…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 11107 Apr 25, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11107—Administration of Alaska Railroads

📜 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

General responsibility for railroad. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to operate the railroad or railroads, branch lines, feeders and telegraph and telephone lines incident thereto, constructed or acquired under the Act of March 12, 1914, or Acts supplemental…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 3m
EO 11106 Apr 18, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11106—Providing for the Administration of the Trade Agreements Program and Related Matters

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Executive Order No. 11075 of January 15, 1963 (28 F.R. 473), be, and it is hereby, amended as follows: SECTION 1. Amend the heading of the order to read "ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRADE AGREEMENTS PROGRAM". SEC. 2. In Section 1, substitute "Definitions.

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 4m
EO 11105 Apr 18, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.33)

Executive Order 11105—Transferring to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator Certain Functions of the Atomic Energy Commission Under the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The provisions of Sections 2 to 8, inclusive, of this order shall be applicable to the community of Los Alamos, New Mexico, but shall not be applicable to the community of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, or to the community of Richland, Washington. SEC. 2.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 11104 Apr 12, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11104—U.S.S. Thresher

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Proclamation 3044 of March 1, 1954 that until sunset on Monday, April 15, 1963 the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 11103 Apr 10, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11103—Providing for the Appointment of Former Peace Corps Volunteers to the Civilian Career Services

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Under such regulations as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, the head of any agency in the Executive Branch may appoint in the competitive service any person who is certified by the Director of the Peace Corps as having served satisfactorily as a Volunteer or Volunteer…

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 11102 Apr 4, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11102—Inspection of Returns by Possessions of the United States

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Returns made in respect of the taxes imposed by chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 23, and 32, subchapters B, C, and D of chapter 33, and subchapter B of chapter 37 of such Code shall be open to inspection by any properly authorized official, body, or commission, lawfully charged…

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 1m
EO 11101 Apr 3, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11101—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southwestern Carriers' Conference Committees and Certain of Their Employees

📜 Art. II §1: Executive Discretion & Internal Operations

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily, or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.

John F. Kennedy
Post-Graduate Legal • 6m
EO 11100 Mar 30, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11100—Establishing the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

. There is hereby established the President's Commission on Registration and Voting Participation (hereinafter referred to as the Commission). (b) The Commission shall be composed of not more than eleven members, each of whom shall be appointed by the President.

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 3m
EO 11099 Mar 14, 1963
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11099—Inspection of Income, Estate, and Gift Tax Returns by the House of Committee on Public Works

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Any income, estate, or gift tax return for the years 1956 to 1963, inclusive, shall, during the Eighty-eighth Congress, be open to inspection by the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, in connection with its…

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 1m
EO 11098 Mar 14, 1963
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 11098—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10001 of September 17, 1948, No. 10008 of October 18, 1948, No. 10202 of January 12, 1951, No. 10292 of September 25, 1951, No. 10420 of December 17, 1952, No.…

John F. Kennedy
College Level • 10m
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