Legal Analysis of Presidential Ability to Revoke National Monuments
Analysis (117 KB)The president has no power to unilaterally abolish a national monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act.
Legal Analysis of the Antiquities Act and Marine Monuments
The Antiquities Act of 1906 may be used to protect marine areas.
See more ›In response to ongoing threats to this century-old conservation tool, NPCA retained the law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (APKS) to analyze the Antiquities Act. APKS determined that the president “has no power unilaterally to abolish a national monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906.”
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