Executive Order 10925
Establishing The President’s Committee On Equal Employment Opportunity WHEREAS discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin is contrary to the Constitutional principles and policies of the United States; […]
Executive Order 11246
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, it is […]
Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:A Proclamation Whereas, it has become necessary to call into service not only volunteers but also portions of the militia of the […]
Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction
Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction By the President of the United States Whereas, as the late Session, Congress passed a Bill, “To guarantee to certain States, whose governments have been usurped or […]
Order of Retaliation
It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of whatever class, color, or condition, and especially to those who are duly organized as soldiers in […]
Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Emancipation Order
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS there appears in the public prints what purports to be a proclamation of Major General Hunter, in the […]
Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMTION. WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the […]
Proclamation Regarding Nullification
[This is an abridged version of the document.] Whereas a convention, assembled in the State of South Carolina, have passed an ordinance, by which they declare that the several acts […]
Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863)
By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. The year that is drawing toward its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful […]