DECLARATORY ACT of 1766, Chapter 12, Volume XXVII of Danby Pickering’s Statutes at Large, printed by John Archdeacon in 1767…
ACT ESTABLISHING THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, April 30, 1798 Acts of the Fifth Congress, Second Session, Chapter LII (1 Stat.…
Act Establishing and Organizing the Marine Corps: Acts of the Fifth Congress, Second Session, Chapter LXXIX (1 Stat. 594-596) published…
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Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 [Ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403] Click here for a link to the Act…
THE LOGAN ACT of 1799 – Prohibiting Diplomacy by Private Citizens “without permission or authority” with intent to “influence the…
CONSCRIPTION ACT OF 1863 – “An Act for enrolling and calling out the national Forces” during the Civil War: [37th Congress, 2nd…
Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves of 1807 & U.S. Constitution Art. I, Sec. 9 [Chapter 22, 9th Congress, Sess.…
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT of 1882 [47th Congress, Sess. I, Chapter 126, 22 Stat. 58-61] The Chinese Exclusion Act imposed a…
Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address October 3, 1863 Background: Newly inaugurated President George Washington called for a national day…