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Line 20: ==Legal significance in the United States== No [[United States Constitution]] provision, federal statute or common-law principle explicitly permits or prohibits signing statements. [[Article One of the United States Constitution\|Article I]], [[Article One of the United States Constitution#Section 7: Bills\|Section 7]] (in the [[Presentment Clause]]) empowers the president to veto a law in its entirety, or to sign it. [[Article Two of the United States Constitution\|Article II]], [[Article Two of the United States Constitution#Section 3: Presidential responsibilities\|Section 3]] requires that the executive ''"take care that the laws be faithfully executed"''. Signing statements do not appear to have legal force by themselves. As a practical matter, they may give notice of the way that the Executive intends to implement a law, which may make them more significant than the text of the law itself.

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