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Presidential Proclamations
Brandon RottinghausA research note by
Brandon Rottinghaus

University of Houston

A presidential proclamation is "an instrument that states a condition, declares a law and requires obedience, recognizes an event or triggers the implementation of a law (by recognizing that the circumstances in law have been realized)" (Cooper 2002, 116).  In short, presidents "define" situations or conditions on situations that become legal or economic truth.  These orders carry the same force of law as executive orders – the difference between the two is that executive orders are aimed at...

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State of the Union Message to Congress
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Statement About Signing the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.


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The American Presidency Project (americanpresidency.org), was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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George Bush Today in History
George Bush
Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine, on the Attempted Coup in the Soviet Union
August 19, 1991
The President. Let me make a few comments about these momentous and stunning events. While we're still watching the situation unfold, and it still is unfolding, all is not clear. It seems clearer all the time that, contrary to official statements out of Moscow, that this move was extra-constitutional, outside of the constitutional provisions for governmental change.

Clearly, it's a disturbing d ...read full document

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