Archival Collections

Affirmative Action Speech

Image: President Clinton and Vice President Gore viewed the Constitution at the National Archives Rotunda on July 19, 1995.

Emoluments Clauses: (Article I, Section 6, Clause 2) (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8)

2019-0636-F: Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution


Presentment Clause (Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2)

2007-0624-F: Line Item Veto

2012-0774-F:  Veto of the Interior Department Fiscal Year 1996 Appropriations Bill

 

Presidential Pardons and Clemencies: (Article II, Section 2)

2006-0222-F:  Pardon Requests (September 2000 - January 2001)

2006-0371-F: Pardon of Cheryl Ada Elizabeth Little

2006-1704-F: Pardon and Clemency Requests

2008-1268-F: Pardon of Patricia ‘Patty’ Hearst Shaw

2009-0736-F: Pardon of Edward Downe, Jr.

2010-0248-F: Clemency of Bob F. Griffin

2010-0452-F: Pardon of Kemba Smith

2010-0791-F: Pardon of Samuel Loring Morison

2012-0020-F: Pardon Memos Written By Jack Quinn of White House Counsel from 1995-1996

2013-1026-F: Pardon of James Lake

 

Appointment of Federal Judges: (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2)

2006-0561-F: Selection of Judicial Candidates

2006-1067-F: Judicial Nominations

2007-1256-F: Judges from the US District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

2009-1007-F: Judge Sonia Sotomayor

2010-0916-F: Richard Blumenthal

2012-0072-F: Robert C. Galloway and the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit

2012-0203-F: Judge Jose Cabranes

2012-0597-F: US District Court Judge Leonie Milhomme Brinkema

2013-0670-F: Appointment of Sandra L. Lynch to US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

2015-0220-F: Appointment of Lewis Kaplan as US District Judge for the Southern District of New York

 

Impeachment: (Article II, Section 4) 

2006-0319-F: Monica Lewinsky 

 

4th Amendment - Search and Seizure (1791)

2020-0549-F: Fourth Amendment and Surveillance

 

25th Amendment - Presidential Succession (1967)

2016-0998-F: Planning for Presidential Succession or Disability Events

 

Constitutionality of War Powers Resolution (1973)

2008-0995-F: War Powers Resolution

2019-0154-F: War Powers

Archival Collections