The designation is merely a technicality, according to the American Presidency Project. "For research purposes, it is probably harmless to categorize these as State of the Union messages (as we do ...

Traditionally, presidents deliver an annual report to Congress informing them about the state of ... State of the Union, even without formally being one, according to the American Presidency ...

A Scenario of a Friendly Canada-U.S. Merger, Canada would not simply become part of the U.S. as a single state under the provisions of the American ... country formed via unification might end ...

While those speeches aren’t technically considered a State of the Union address, they have the same impact as one, according to the American Presidency Project, a non-profit and non-partisan ...

The theme of President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress is “the renewal of the American Dream ... s speech is not technically a State of the Union address. The Constitution mandates ...

According to the American Presidency Project, the impacts of these first-year speeches should be considered to have the same heft as the State of the Union addresses that follow in subsequent years.

In a historic show of rebellion against President Trump during his State of the Union address to Congress ... the first African American woman in Congress, and the words “unbought and unbossed ...