Commander-in-Chief Washington issues Proclamation Four, declaring a policy of neutrality between the Republic of France’s First Revolutionary War against Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, (a.k.a. Dutch republic), but forbidding private State sovereign Citizens from acting on their sympathies for either side.
[updated 12/22/2024] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
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Authority:
Article II, Section 3
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Article IV, Section 4
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References:
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, four volumes. (London: Cassell, 1956-58), 3:344-45.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 49.
George Washington Proclamation 4 – Neutrality of the United States in the War Involving Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands Against France
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