South Carolina’s Ordinance of Nullification
An ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities. Whereas the Congress […]
“Neutrality Act”of May 1, 1937
JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerent countries; the prohibition of […]
“Neutrality Act” of February 29, 1936
JOINT RESOLUTION Extending and amending the joint resolution (Public Resolution Numbered 67 Seventy-fourth Congress), approved August 31, 1935. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States […]
Neutrality Act of 1935
Source: U.S. Department of State, Publication 1983, Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931 – 1941 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943), p. 265 – 271. https://goo.gl/vGzRCg. . […]
Homestead Act
An Act to secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America […]
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Source: F. N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws . . . , 7 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), 1:519–26, available online at http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/thorpe-the-federal-and-state-constitutions-vol-i-united-states-alabama-district-of-columbia. For […]
District of Columbia Emancipation Act
CHAP. LIV. — An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of […]
Second Confiscation Act
CHAP. CXCV.— An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate […]
Resolution on Compensated Emancipation
[No. 26.] Joint Resolution declaring that the United States ought to cooperate with, affording pecuniary Aid to any State which may adopt the gradual Abolishment of Slavery. Be it resolved […]
First Confiscation Act
CHAP. LX. — An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress […]