Executive Order 14422 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America
Signed: 2026-08-27 Published: 2026-09-02 Federal Register document: 2026-18020
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14422 says
Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 169 (Wednesday, September 2, 2026) [Federal Register Volume 91, Number 169 (Wednesday, September 2, 2026)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 56543-56544] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2026-18020] [[Page 56541]] Vol. 91 Wednesday, No. 169 September 2, 2026 Part II The President ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Order 14422--Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 91 , No. 169 / Wednesday, September 2, 2026 / Presidential Documents ___________________________________________________________________ Title 3-- The President [[Page 56543]] Executive Order 14422 of August 27, 2026 Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. As I announced in Executive Order 14172 of January 20, 2025 (Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness), it is the policy of my Administration to recognize the extraordinary contributions of the American people and the rich heritage of our history by naming great natural landmarks for our shared achievements. The...
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Graded 2026-10-13
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Executive Order 14422 is constitutional. The President has authority over the internal naming of federal geographic features, and the order does not infringe any rights, take private property, or consolidate power beyond the federal sphere. The renaming is a symbolic act with no coercive effect on persons or states.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
The President has authority to direct the Board on Geographic Names to rename federal geographic features under 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, which is a delegation of Congress's power over federal property and records. This is a routine administrative action within the executive branch's management of federal nomenclature, not an exercise of power over persons or states. No enumerated power is excee… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
The order does not restrict speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, fair trial, jury, cruel and unusual punishment, or any other right protected by the first ten amendments. It is a purely symbolic renaming of a geographic feature with no impact on individual liberties. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The order imposes no restriction on what any person may do with their own person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It does not command, prohibit, or regulate any private conduct. The renaming of a lake does not affect individual sovereignty in any way. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
The action is purely federal—renaming a federal geographic feature on federal maps and records. It does not prevent individuals, families, local communities, or states from continuing to call the lake by any name they choose. The federal government is the appropriate level for maintaining official federal geographic nomenclature, and no lower level of government could perform this specific federal… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
The order does not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, nor does it take private property for public use. It does not impose fines, penalties, or burdens. No due process or takings issue arises from renaming a body of water on federal records.
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