Grover Cleveland (December 2, 1895) To the Congress of the United States: The present assemblage of the legislative branch of our Government occurs at a time when the interests of our people and…
Benjamin Harrison (December 3, 1889) To the Senate and House of Representatives: There are few transactions in the administration of the Government that are even temporarily held in the confidence…
Herbert Hoover (December 2, 1930) To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have the honor to comply with the requirement of the Constitution that I should lay before the Congress information as…
Theodore Roosevelt (December 7, 1903) To the Senate and House of Representatives: The country is to be congratulated on the amount of substantial achievement which has marked the past year both as…
Patrick Henry March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But…
Franklin Pierce (December 5, 1853) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The interest with which the people of the Republic anticipate the assembling of Congress and the…
Pursuit from Bethany David Wooster's Alarm in Judd's Meadow They were early risers at Mr. Judd's. The habits of industry in which the family were trained, from the oldest to the…
Theodore Roosevelt (December 2, 1902) To the Senate and House of Representatives: We still continue in a period of unbounded prosperity. This prosperity is not the creature of law, but undoubtedly…
by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 58Federalist No. 60Federalist No. 59 Concerning the Power of Congress to Regulate the Election of Members To the People of…
