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Coleman Karesh Law Library
US Federal Government Legal Resources
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Constitution:
Links to the founding documents of the United States
- Constitution of the United States (Cornell Law School)
- Declaration of Independence
- Unratified Amendments
- Articles of Confederation
The Federal government is organized into three branches; Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
Most federal government websites will fit into one of the three categories.
Publicly oriented sites:
These are sites designed for the public, providing access to various services of the federal government.
- Executive Agencies
- Federal Administrative Agency Decisions and Other Actions
- Federal Consumer Information Center: Pueblo, Colorado
- Federal Register
- FedWorld Homepage: Federal Government Information Locator
- How Our Laws Are Made
- LLRX Guide to the US Federal Legal System
- Small Business Administration
- FirstGov: "Your First Click to the U.S. Government"
- Forms from the Feds
Executive:
- Executive Office of the President (White House)
- Executive Orders
- Homeland Security Digital Library (access limited from the law library only)
- Presidential Papers
Regulatory:
- Executive Agencies
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Federal Administrative Agency Decisions and Other Actions (University of Virginia School of Law)
- Federal Register
- A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations: Law Librarians' Society of D.C.
- US Government Printing Office:
- Forms from the Feds: links to various agencies' forms via the University of Memphis
- CyberCemetery: archives of defunct federal agencies
Legislative:
- US Congress: Current and recent federal legislation
- US Senate
- US House of Representatives
- US Code: at Cornell Law School
- US Code: Office of the Law Revision Council
- US Code: PDF version (unannotated)
- Historical Congressional documents (1774-1873)
Treaty Sites:
- American Society of International Law
- Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
- The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- United Nations Treaty Collection
- US Department of State Private International Law Database
- US Senate: Treaties
Judicial:
- United States Supreme Court
- The US Supreme Court
- Findlaw: Important cases from 1893 to present. Browsable and searchable archive of US Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to the present.
- Cornell Law School (US Supreme Court from 1990 to date, with selected decisions prior to 1990.)
- Fedworld.gov: US Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to 1975
- United States Court of Appeals:
- Finding Aids: Federal Court Finder: Emory Law School
| Courts of Appeal Home Pages | Sites which may have older opinions: |
| 1st Circuit | 1st Circuit (1995 to July 2001 - Emory Law School) |
| 3rd Circuit | 3rd Circuit (1994 to date - Villanova Law School ) |
| 4th Circuit | 4th Circuit (1995 to July 2001 - Emory Law School) |
| 6th Circuit | 6th Circuit (1995 to June 1999 - Emory Law School) |
| 7th Circuit | |
| 8th Circuit | |
| 9th Circuit | |
| 10th Circuit | 10th Circuit (Aug. 1995 through October 1997 - Emory Law School) 10th Circuit (Aug. 1997 to date - Washburn U. School of Law Library) |
| 11th Circuit | 11th Circuit (Nov. 1994 to date - Emory Law School) |
| Federal Circuit | Federal Circuit (Aug. 1995 to August 2001 - Emory Law School) |
| D.C. Circuit | D.C. Circuit (1995 to date - Georgetown Law School) |
| US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces |
- United States District Courts:
- Federal District Court for the District of South Carolina
- US Judiciary Sites (USC College of Library & Information Science)
- District Court dockets
- Federal Court Rules:
- Rules of the US Supreme Court (US Supreme Court)
- Rules of the US Supreme Court (Cornell Law School)
- Federal Rules of Evidence (Cornell Law School)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Cornell Law School)
- Other Court Sites of Interest