Executive Order 5100 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 5100—Authorizing the Appointment of Jean N. Edington Without Regard to Civil Service Rules

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Saturday, April 27, 1929

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1 min read (177 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 Herbert Hoover on 1929-04-27, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Authorizing the Appointment of Jean N. Edington Without Regard to Civil Service Rules." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.

Constitutional Assessment: Reviewed under the Tenth Amendment and the principle of dual federalism, this order touches upon domains traditionally reserved to the sovereign States. The Framers would caution against any attempt to commandeer state officers or displace local police powers through federal executive fiat.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ Formal executive instruction issued by the President establishing official administrative policy on Authorizing the Appointment of Jean N. Edington Without Regard to Civil Service Rules.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants

Total Words

177

1,059 characters

Estimated Read Time

1 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

12.6

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 5100, Herbert Hoover (Apr 27, 1929). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-5100-authorizing-the-appointment-jean-n-edington-without-regard-civil.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

Mrs. Jean N. Edington may be appointed to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules. She is wholly dependent upon her own resources and has two children, eight and six years of age, who are partially dependent upon her, these conditions being brought about by the illness of her husband, Mr. Wallace D. Edington, formerly a junior chemist in the Department of Agriculture, who is a patient for an indefinite period in the Springfield State Hospital for the Insane at Sykesville, Maryland. This order is favored by the Secretary of Agriculture, in whose Department Mrs. Edington has been employed temporarily, and by the Secretary of Commerce, who states that the Department of Commerce will be glad to extend to Mrs. Edington an appointment if an order is issued. The Civil Service Commission, being limited in its recommendations to those cases where a waiver of the rules will more fully meet the needs of the service, is unable to concur. HERBERT HOOVER The White House, April 27, 1929.