Executive Order 12612
Source: Ronald Reagan, Executive Order 12612—Federalism, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251147. By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and laws […]
Veto Message Regarding Land Grant Colleges
Source: James Buchanan, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203065. I return with my objections to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, […]
Veto Message on Rivers and Harbors Bill
Source: James K. Polk, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201084. I have considered the bill entitled “An act making appropriations for the improvement […]
Proclamation Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina
Source: Andrew Jackson, Proclamation 43—Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201756. Whereas a convention assembled in the state of […]
Annual Message to Congress (1880)
President’s Annual Message, 46th Cong., 3rd sess., Congressional Record 11, p 1 S2. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1880/12/06. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the continued and increasing prosperity of […]
Executive Order 9835
Whereas each employee of the Government of the United States is endowed with a measure of trusteeship over the democratic processes which are the heart and sinew of the United […]
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Fourth Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29545 To the Senate and House of Representatives: … It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or […]
The Proclamation of Neutrality
“Neutrality Proclamation, 22 April 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/75ge. Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, on the […]
Executive Order 8802–Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
Source: “Executive Order 8802,” in 100 Milestone Documents, an online library compiled by the “Our Documents” Initiative, a cooperative effort of the National Archives and Records Administration with National History […]
Executive Order 9981
Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed services of the United States […]