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Federal Resources

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U.S. Constitution (actual images of the Constitution)
Constitution of the United States, Analysis and Interpretation (Analysis of each clause of the constitution, citing to leading cases, historical documents, etc.)
Founders' Constitution (Constitution with historical documents surrounding its creation.)
United States Code (from the House of Representatives)
United States Code (from FDsys)
The Declaration of Independence
How Our Laws Are Made (House of Representatives)
Enactment of a Law (Senate)
Federalist Papers (Avalon Project at Yale)
Thomas (text of bills, laws, Congressional Record, and other legislative history documents)
Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet (free & commercial)
Congressional (LexisNexis) (legislative history)
United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
OpenCRS A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology to make Congressional Research Service Reports available to the public.
Congressional Documents (1985-date)
C-SPAN
Congressional News and Issues
U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection 1789-1969

United States Supreme Court (dockets, oral argument calendars and transcripts (2000- ), other calendars, recent opinions, orders and more)
Supreme Court Decisions (Cornell) (recent decisions and an archive of older decisions)

Supreme Court Oral Arguments

U.S. Supreme Court Center (Findlaw) (decisions, dockets, some briefs, information divided by date or topic)
On the Docket (Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism) (short description of cases pending before the Supreme Court)
U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs (1832-1978)
U.S. Law Week (Supreme Court news and opinions)
U.S. Federal Court Finder (find federal court websites)
Administrative Office of U.S. Courts (federal court web sites, general information, maps, and statistics)
Federal Judicial Center (biographies of federal judges, history of the courts, and other general educational information)
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (opinions, court rules, etc.)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (local rules, opinions, general information)

Court Rules

Federal Rules of Court (U.S. Courts) (includes rules, rulemaking process, pending rules, committee reports, and more)
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Cornell)
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Cornell)
Federal Rules of Evidence (Cornell)
Supreme Court Rules

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) (federal regulations)
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (mirror of print version)
CFR List of Sections Affected (LSA)
Federal Register (daily publication of rules, proposed rules, notices, executive orders, etc.)
Executive Orders Table (executive order numbers listed by president since 1929)
Federal Administrative Decisions & Other Actions (alphabetical list by department provided by the U. of Virginia)
Regulations.gov (submit or review comments on federal regulations in the comment period)
The White House (news, press briefings, presidential addresses, and more)
Offices within the Executive Office of the President (the Cabinet, Office of Management and Budget, policy offices, etc.)
Executive Branch (Library of Congress) (includes links to major agencies)
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments & Agencies (USA.gov) (comprehensive, alphabetical list)
American President: An Online Reference Source (Miller Center of Public Affairs) (basic information on every U.S. President)
Public Papers of the Presidents (FDsys) (searchable papers 1991-2005)
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (GPO Access)(Browse or search papers since 1993)
Presidential Pardons (Jurist) (educational site on presidential pardons)

FirstGov (directory of all federal and some state sites)
FDsys (Federal Digital System: electronic publications from all three branches of government)
Avalon Project (Yale Law School - full-text documents related to law, history or diplomacy, some dating back to before the 18th century)
Cornell University Legal Information Institute (law by subject, United States Code, court opinions and more)
University of Michigan Government Documents Center (listing of federal government resources)

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