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The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress is an act passed by the legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia calling on the Congress of the United States to declare the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to be null and void, due to violations of the U.S. Constitution during their enactment. The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress is a petition in the form of a memorial wherein facts of history are declared by the State of Georgia and then sent to the federal government for a response to the petition. In this particular case, a response was never sent back to Georgia and resulted in a default on behalf of the federal government which is commonly known as an admission by default. On March 8, 2007, it will be 50 years since the memorial was sent to the federal government without a response.

The document claims that the enactment of these amendments constituted an overthrowing of the Constitutionally mandated federal government of the united States of America and those of the Confederate states.

Further, the document asserts that the de facto government existing since these unlawful and illegal acts appears to be a subversive organization in contradistinction to the claim that the U.S. government is an example of representative government in the world.

• Georgia (U.S. state) politics