Executive Order 7798 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 7798—Transferring a Portion of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, Idaho, to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Veteran's Administration

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Wednesday, January 26, 1938

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2 min read (318 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt on 1938-01-26, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Transferring a Portion of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, Idaho, to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Veteran's Administration." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: Scrutinized through Article II, Section 2, this action exercises the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief. Early Framers recognized broad executive discretion in commanding military forces during conflict, provided it remains bounded by congressional declarations and respects civilian domestic courts.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ Formal executive instruction issued by the President establishing official administrative policy on Transferring a Portion of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, Idaho, to the Control and Jurisdiction of the Veteran's Administration.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Armed Forces & Military Establishments 🏛️ Sovereign State Governments & Localities 🏛️ Executive Departments & Federal Civil Servants

Total Words

318

1,872 characters

Estimated Read Time

2 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

8.1

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 7798, Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jan 26, 1938). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-7798-transferring-portion-the-boise-barracks-military-reservation-idaho.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of March 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1212, it is ordered that the following-described portion of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation located in township 3 north, range 2 east, of Boise meridian, County of Ada, State of Idaho, be, and it is hereby, transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the War Department to the control and jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration: "Beginning at a stone monument on the westerly boundary line of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, from which monument, a stone monument marking the northwest corner of the reservation bears N. 20° W., 867.24 feet distant. "Thence from said initial point, by metes and bounds; S. 22°12' E., 669.53 feet, along the said westerly boundary line of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation; N. 68°42' E., 75.98 feet; S. 83°22' E., 168.85 feet; N. 68°40' E., 832.75 feet; S. 22°40' E., 593.75 feet; N. 84°45' E., 940.20 feet; N. 2°15' E., 409.60 feet; N. 9°42' W., 49.48 feet; N. 1°16' W., 119.80 feet; N. 11°17' E., 59.00 feet; N. 37°27' E., 59.40 feet; N. 57°19' E., 225.70 feet; N. 88°56' E., 58.90 feet; N. 25°28' W., 1805.40 feet, to a point on the northerly boundary line of the said Military Reservation; S. 69°47' W., 1088.80 feet, along said northerly boundary line, to a point on the center line of the Cruzen Irrigation Canal; Southwesterly, 1,450 feet, more or less, following the said center line of the Cruzen Irrigation Canal; S. 70°03' W., 35.81 feet, to a point on the aforementioned westerly boundary line of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation; S. 20°00' E., 348.35 feet, along the said westerly boundary line of the Boise Barracks Military Reservation, to the place of beginning. The tract as described contains an area of 110 acres, more or less." FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, January 26, 1938 .