Kentucky Declaration of Neutrality was a resolution passed by the Kentucky Legislature declaring the Commonwealth of Kentucky officially neutral in the...

of them were gold coins. The date on the latest coins of the hoard was 1863. In May 1861 the Kentucky Legislature passed a Declaration of Neutrality which...

session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917, which passed in the Senate on the same day and then in the House of Representatives...

Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but...

after early 1862, despite declaring neutrality, there was a clear social divide over which side the people of Kentucky supported. With 125,000 supporting...

purpose of subduing my sister Southern states. B. Magoffin." Both houses of the General Assembly met on May 7 and passed declarations of neutrality in the...

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The...

because of its concerns to maintain its neutrality policy. The non-recognition of particular acts of a state does not normally affect the recognition of the...

from neutrality to intervention at about the same pace as the rest of the nation. Midwestern farmers generally opposed the war, especially those of German...

imminent Allied invasion, the prospect of further atomic bombings, and a Soviet declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria, Japan announced its unconditional...

Leonidas Polk's subsequently invaded Columbus, Kentucky, which ended Kentucky's policy of neutrality and turned it against the Confederacy. Grant used...

declaring war on Germany on April 6, 1917. The declaration ended nearly three years of American neutrality in the war since the beginning, and the country's...

U.S. Department of Labor for allegedly violating the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. After a thorough investigation, the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission...

unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the following year, which inspired, formalized, and escalated the war. For most of the eight-year war,...

Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was the...

from Lincoln to respect Kentucky's neutrality; Lincoln agreed only to issue a declaration that he had no present designs on Kentucky but would not commit...

Barkley supported U.S. neutrality in World War I and endorsed Wilson's plan to purchase merchant ships for the U.S. instead of paying foreign carriers...

under German occupation until the end of the war. Before the war, Luxembourg had pursued a policy of neutrality and only became an Allied member after...

that were not related to the direct territorial self-defense of the United States. Neutrality and non-interventionism found support among elite and popular...

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rules in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC that the Federal Communications Commission cannot enforce net neutrality. According...

Madison signed the declaration on June 18, 1812. For his fourth consecutive term from 1813 to 1815, he had secured one of Kentucky's at-large seats in...

served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia in...

Republic of Yucatán on December 23, 1823, less than seven months later. The second Republic of Yucatán began in 1841, with its declaration of independence...

Commandments of Progressivism": tougher regulation on corporations; affordable education; scientific investment and environmentalism; net neutrality; increased...

Continental Congress and became a leader of the revolution. He assisted Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was its primary...

with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy. While there were historical precedents for unannounced military action by Japan, the lack of a formal...

Neutrality of 1794. The American Historical Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (October 1918), pp. 26–47. The Democratic Societies of 1793 and 1794 in Kentucky,...

Virginia, after his cross-country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality. The majority of Kentuckians allied with the U.S. camp. Polk and Pillow's...

British chose to pursue a policy of neutrality. British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole justified British neutrality in the conflict by noting that the...

granddaughter of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Having previously served as speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives...