Message to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War with Spain
Congressional Record (bound edition), vol. 31, pt. 4, 55th Congress, 2nd session, 3698–3724, available at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1898-pt4-v31/GPO-CRECB-1898-pt4-v31-16. Obedient to that precept of the Constitution which commands the president to give from

