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A 5 page research paper that discusses this document. Shortly after World War II, the U.S. government, realizing that petroleum resources would be integral to the future and that there would soon be technology capable drilling offshore for oil, drafted a presidential proclamation to ensure that the U.S. had a legal foundation for claiming the natural resources contiguous to the country, existing on the continental shelf. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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offshore for oil, drafted a presidential proclamation to ensure that the U.S. had a legal foundation for claiming the natural resources contiguous to the country, existing on the continental shelf.
Prior to the Truman Proclamation, historically and purely for the purposes of defense, Western nations used an unofficial, but universally recognized, three-mile boundary as the boundary of their national sovereignty
(Piedrahita-Rook 82). Presidential Proclamation No. 2667, dated February 28, 1945, greatly extended this jurisdiction by the United States. This document begins with a statement of its intent, which is to
address the rights of the United States towards the "Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf" (Truman). The document then describes an altruistic purpose
for formulating this policy. It is argues that a formal policy that delineates jurisdiction is required in order to promote both the conservation of any mineral resources that may reside
within the continental shelf as well as achieve their "prudent utilization" (Truman). The next paragraph argues that mineral resources in the continental shelf can reasonable be regarded as an "extension
of the land mass of the coastal nation"; therefore, the interests of "self-protection" also compel the government has the right to extend its authority in regards to keeping "close watch
over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for making the proclamation the next to the last paragraph
formally announces that Truman, as President of the United States of America, proclaims "the following policy...with respect to the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental
shelf" (Truman). The concluding paragraph spells out that the U.S. is asserting jurisdiction and control of any mineral deposits found on the continental shelf that are contiguous to its
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