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Government Documents

Resources on the federal government

The United States Government Manual
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
Also Shelved at the Middleton Reference Desk., Call number: AE 2.108/2:
This is your ultimate resource for understanding the US Government. It includes the text of the Constitution and Amendments in the front, and explains the powers and functions of each and every government agency, from the three main branches to the various agencies, departments, and quasi-official organizations.

How our laws are made
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/lawsmade.toc.html

How a bill becomes a law
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/govdocs/subject/bill/
If you need to do legal research and don't know how laws are made, then work through either one (or better yet, both) of these web sites. You'll save yourself time and frustration.

The federal judiciary home page
http://www.uscourts.gov/about.html
If you need to do research on court cases, look here first to understand the federal court system.

U.S. Federal Government Agencies
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Our own directory of official web pages for the various agencies and branches of the U.S. federal government. Most agencies have descriptions of the types of documents they publish on their web pages.

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