Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address October 3, 1863 Background: Newly inaugurated President George Washington called for a national day…
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 – Trail of Tears [21st Congress, Session 1, Chapter 148] It can hardly be debated…
President Andrew Jackson’s Force Act of 1833: [4 Stat. 632, Acts of 22nd Congress] During the Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833,…
CURRENCY ACT OF 1764, Chapter XXXIV, Volume XXVI of Danby Pickering’s Statutes at Large, printed by Joseph Benthem in 1764.…
THE QUARTERING ACT OF 1765 v. THE QUARTERING ACT OF 1774 Chapter XXXIII, Volume XXVI of Danby Pickering’s Statutes at…
William Waller Hening (1768-1828) – Thomas Jefferson’s legal publisher: Hening was a 19th century attorney, legal scholar, publisher and politician…
AMERICA’S FIRST PENSIONS Henings Statutes at Large, Volume II, Act I of 1675. The United States has a long history…
ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S FIRST REPORT ON THE PUBLIC CREDIT [Reprinted in the Debates and Proceedings of the Congress of the United…
Revolutionary War pensions – Federal assumption of state pensions Laws of the United States, Chapter LXXI, Second Session of the…
ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS: Acts of the Fifth Congress, Second Session, published by William Ross, Philadelphia, 1798. Arguably one of…