Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Babel Proclamation, Badoglio Proclamation, Balfour Declaration, Balfour Declaration of 1926, Case of Proclamations, Charter 97, Claim of Right 1989, Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783, Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Emancipation Proclamation, Haldimand Proclamation, Mother's Day Proclamation, National Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 1897 proclamation, Olney Proclamation, Philipsburg Proclamation, Potsdam Declaration, Presidential Proclamation, Proclamation 2714, Proclamation by the Crown Act 1539, Proclamation Day, Proclamation Declaring the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, Proclamation For the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, Proclamation of accession of Elizabeth II, Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, Proclamation of Islaz, Proclamation of Neutrality, Proclamation of Po aniec, Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy, Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil), Proclamation of Timi oara, Proclamation to the inhabitants of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, Proclamation 1081, Rimini Proclamation, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Royal Proclamation of 2003, Schuman Declaration, Temple Entry Proclamation, The Family: A Proclamation to the World, The King is dead. Long live the King., The Proclamation. Excerpt: The Emancipation Proclamation was an order issued to all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by Congress. It proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and ordered the Army (and all segments of the Executive branch) to treat as free all those enslaved in ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. The Proclamation could not be enforced in areas still under rebellion, but as the army took control of Confederate regions, the slaves in those regions were emancipated rather than returned to their masters. From 20,000 to 50,000 former slaves in regions where rebellion had already been subdued were immediately emancipated, and over 3 million more were emancipated as the Union army advanced. The Proclamation did not apply to the five slave states that were not in rebellion, nor to most regions already controlled by the Union army; emancipation there would come after separate state actions and/or the December 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery illegal everywhere in the U.S. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens. It made the eradication of slavery an explicit war goal, in addition to the goal of reuniting the Union. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None returned, and the order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation outra