📊 Computational Linguistics & Constitutional Trends
Presidential Analytics & Graphs
Quantifying presidential power: how executive orders evolved from brief 100-word wartime decrees into massive regulatory frameworks.
Longest Executive Order
Executive Order 10214—Prescribing the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1951
Harry S Truman 52,110 words (~261m)
Most Concise Executive Order
Executive Order 7005—Revocation of Executive Order No. 6832, of August 23, 1934, Making Funds Available for Expenses of the National Railroad Adjustment Board
Franklin D. Roosevelt 31 words (~1m)
Readability & Legal Density
Post-Graduate Level (Grade 18+)
Modern executive orders require an average of 18-22 years of formal education (equivalent to a Master's or J.D. degree) to parse effectively.
⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment
Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism
2361 (21%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
8451 (77%)
Constitutional Neutral
Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals
233 (2%)
Friction & Overreach
Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings
The Word Count Explosion
Average words per Executive Order: concise historical decrees vs modern multi-thousand word regulatory directives
George Washington
249 words • ~1 min
John Quincy Adams
744 words • ~4 min
Andrew Jackson
535 words • ~3 min
Martin Van Buren
211 words • ~1 min
John Tyler
369 words • ~2 min
James K. Polk
1,525 words • ~8 min
Zachary Taylor
453 words • ~2 min
Millard Fillmore
159 words • ~1 min
Franklin Pierce
375 words • ~2 min
James Buchanan
407 words • ~2 min
Abraham Lincoln
204 words • ~1 min
Andrew Johnson
272 words • ~1 min
Ulysses S. Grant
247 words • ~1 min
Rutherford B. Hayes
179 words • ~1 min
James A. Garfield
64 words • ~1 min
Chester A. Arthur
302 words • ~2 min
Grover Cleveland
331 words • ~2 min
Benjamin Harrison
198 words • ~1 min
William McKinley
203 words • ~1 min
Theodore Roosevelt
122 words • ~1 min
William Howard Taft
183 words • ~1 min
Woodrow Wilson
370 words • ~2 min
Warren G. Harding
337 words • ~2 min
Calvin Coolidge
275 words • ~1 min
Herbert Hoover
280 words • ~1 min
Franklin D. Roosevelt
353 words • ~2 min
Harry S. Truman
650 words • ~3 min
Dwight D. Eisenhower
581 words • ~3 min
John F. Kennedy
747 words • ~4 min
Lyndon B. Johnson
525 words • ~3 min
Richard Nixon
525 words • ~3 min
Jimmy Carter
660 words • ~3 min
Ronald Reagan
561 words • ~3 min
George W. Bush
834 words • ~4 min
Barack Obama
1,197 words • ~6 min
Donald Trump
1,270 words • ~6 min
Shortest Era: Lincoln & 19th Century (~200 words) Longest Era: 21st Century (~1,200 - 2,500+ words)