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Executive Order 12439 Constitutional Fidelity (+0.44)

Executive Order 12439—President's Task Force on Food Assistance

Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan
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Thursday, September 8, 1983
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2 min read (435 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 Ronald Reagan on 1983-09-08, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "President's Task Force on Food Assistance." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

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

▪ By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, in order to establish, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
▪ The Task Force shall analyze Federal and other programs intended to render food assistance to the needy and shall make recommendations to the President and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to how such programs may be improved.
▪ The Task Force shall submit its report to the President within ninety days of its first meeting.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants 🏛️ Private Citizens & Property Owners
Total Words
435
2,692 characters
Estimated Read Time
2 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
15.7
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.44
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 12439, Ronald Reagan (Sep 8, 1983). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-12439-presidents-task-force-food-assistance.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, in order to establish, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. I), an advisory committee to examine programs intended to render food assistance to the needy and to make recommendations on how such programs may be improved, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. (a) There is established the President's Task Force on Food Assistance, which shall be composed of not more than fifteen persons, who shall be appointed by the President from among citizens of the United States who are not full-time officers or employees of the Federal Government. (b) The President shall designate a Chairman, and may also designate a Vice Chairman, from among the members of the Task Force. Sec. 2. Functions. The Task Force shall analyze Federal and other programs intended to render food assistance to the needy and shall make recommendations to the President and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to how such programs may be improved. The Task Force shall submit its report to the President within ninety days of its first meeting. Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The heads of Executive agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide the Task Force such information as it may require for purposes of carrying out its functions. (b) Members of the Task Force shall serve without compensation for their work on the Task Force, but may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in the Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), to the extent funds are available therefor. (c) The Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of funds, provide the Task Force with such administrative services, facilities, staff and other support services as may be necessary for the effective performance of its functions. Sec. 4. General. (a) Notwithstanding any other Executive Order, the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, which are applicable to the Task Force, except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with guidelines and procedures established by the Administrator of General Services. (b) The Task Force shall, unless sooner extended, terminate thirty days after submission of its report to the President, but in no event later than January 31, 1984. RONALD REAGAN The White House, September 8, 1983. [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:45 a.m., September 9, 1983]