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In English law, a proclamation is a formal announcement ("royal proclamation"), made under the great seal, of some matter which the King-in-Council or Queen-in-Council desires to make known to his or her subjects: e.g., the declaration of war, or state of emergency, the statement of neutrality, the summoning or dissolution of Parliament, or the bringing into operation of the provisions of some ...
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 described in the law have been realized.
The purpose of the Declaration, he said, had simply been to justify the independence of the United States, and not to proclaim the equality of any "inferior or degraded race". [ 22 ] : 204 Lincoln, however, thought that the language of the Declaration was deliberately universal, setting a high moral standard to which the American republic ...
The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States. At the request of Congress, President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. [1]
The Trinity Declaration is the first international and widely adopted "Geneva Convention for Cyberwarfare." The Trinity Declaration was adopted and ratified on April 1, 2023. The signatories of the Trinity Declaration are not nations or political organizations but rather individuals and organizations.
A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another. The declaration is a performative speech act (or the public signing of a document) by an authorized party of a national government, in order to create a state of war between two or more states .
The decree was, in fact, constitutional; for while Congress has the sole right to declare war, it is "the duty of the executive to preserve peace till the war is declared." [5] The Proclamation of Neutrality did not violate the United States' 1778 Treaty of defensive alliance with France, as the Democratic-Republicans were claiming. The treaty ...
A declaration of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state.