Improving Our Nation Through Better Design

Enumerated powers · passes

The President directs subordinate executive departments and agencies on administration of existing federal services, hiring, and compliance with the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act. This is execution of laws already enacted and supervision of the executive branch under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. No new regulatory power over states or private parties is claimed, and Section 4 limits the order to existing legal authority.

Bill of Rights · passes

No speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, search, trial, or other First through Tenth Amendment right is restricted. The order directs website and physical-site usability improvements and hiring of designers. It creates no censorship, no surveillance, no seizure, and expressly creates no enforceable legal burden under Section 4(c). Cited: First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Tenth Amendment - none infringed.

Individual liberty · passes

The order imposes no mandate, prohibition, or condition on what any person may do with their person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs only internal federal design standards and recruitment of designers. Citizens remain free to use or not use the improved services, with no penalty or compulsion requiring government justification.

Decentralization · passes

Federal public-facing services must be provided by the federal level that Congress authorized. Individuals, counties, and states cannot redesign federal agency websites and federal offices. The National Design Studio is advisory and coordinating within the Executive Office of the President, sunsets as a temporary organization after 3 years, and Section 4 preserves existing agency authority rather than preempting state or local design decisions. No upward consolidation beyond the minimum necessary.

Due process and takings · passes

No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property, no hearing or notice is owed, and no property is taken. No fines, forfeitures, licensing revocations, or physical appropriations occur. Implementation is subject to applicable law and appropriations. Cited: Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and Takings Clause - not triggered.