Signing ceremony

Typically the document is a bill passed by a legislature, thus becoming a law by an executive's signature.

However, the document may also be, for example, an executive order,[1][2][3] international agreement,[1] or a veto statement that invalidates a legislative measure.

The President typically invites Congressional leaders who were instrumental in the bill's passage as well as interested community members.

For example, the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon B. Johnson used more than 75 pens.

The pens were then given to attending dignitaries and supporters of the bill, including Rosa Parks, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Everett McKinley Dirksen and Martin Luther King Jr.[15] The practice of using multiple pens was briefly stopped during the presidency of Donald Trump, who preferred to sign the bills with one Sharpie-like pen and then hold up the signed document for a photo op.