Executive Order 10731 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 10731—Delegating to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget the Authority of the President To Transfer Certain Records, Property, and Personnel

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Thursday, October 10, 1957

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1 min read (102 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1957-10-10, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Delegating to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget the Authority of the President To Transfer Certain Records, Property, and Personnel." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.

Constitutional Assessment: Evaluated against the Fifth Amendment, this action touches upon property or economic rights. An early statesman would insist upon strict adherence to due process of law and the constitutional guarantee that private holdings shall not be encumbered or taken for public purposes without just compensation and lawful process.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ Formal executive instruction issued by the President establishing official administrative policy on Delegating to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget the Authority of the President To Transfer Certain Records, Property, and Personnel.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People

Total Words

102

577 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

22.9

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 10731, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Oct 10, 1957). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10731-delegating-the-director-the-bureau-the-budget-the-authority-the.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the authority vested in the President by the last sentence of section 4 of the Airways Modernization Act of 1957 (71 Stat 351) to provide for appropriate transfers of records, property, and personnel, in connection with transfers of functions made under other provisions of the said section 4, be, and it is hereby, delegated to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, October 10, 1957.