proclamation

mandate

Formal authoritative directive

• edictAuthoritative public command
• fiatAuthoritative official decree
• dictumAuthoritative formal statement

directive · command · order · ruling · ordinance · statute · ukase · rescript · writ · bull

manifesto

Published statement of principles

• affirmationPositive statement of truth
• assertionConfident statement of fact
• avowalOpen declaration of belief

testament · pronouncement · statement · announcement · utterance · articulation · profession · disclosure · revelation · promulgation

bulletin

Brief public announcement

• broadcastTransmitted media signal
• communiqueOfficial public announcement
• dispatchSend with speed

newsflash · advisory · notification · alert · notice · update · release · publication · briefing · report

abolition

Formal discontinuation of practice

• freedomAbsence of constraint
• liberationRelease from constraint
• manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved

independence · sovereignty · amnesty · pardon · Juneteenth · Lincoln · decree · historic · landmark · civil rights

inauguration

Formal beginning ceremony

• coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
• commencementAct of starting
• convocationFormal ceremonial gathering

enthronement · investiture · swearing-in · ratification · reading · heralding · fanfare · trumpet · pageantry · ritual

• legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
• diplomatic documentstreaty, accord, communique, protocol, diplomatic note
• evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
• Latin American IndependenceSimon Bolivar, independence movement, patriots, revolutionaries, liberators
• royal decreesroyal decree, royal decrees, decree, decrees, royal edict
• medieval documentscharter, royal charter, town charter, indenture, patent