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Law and Legislation
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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
K 416 .A3 (Ref)
The major codification of administrative law at the federal level. Includes all the general and permanent rules first published in the Federal Register by the Executive Department and agencies of the federal government.
Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Intepretation
Contains the text of the Constitution as well as annotations of Supreme Court cases through 2002. Supplements provide updates.
Federal Register
This U.S. federal government source includes all the Executive rules, proposed rules, and regulations published on a given day. The Unified Agenda (Semiannual Regulatory Agenda) is available as a separate database. Coverage: 1994-present. Updated daily.
LexisNexis Academic Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Coverage dates vary.
Public & Private Laws
A database of laws enacted since the 104th Congress (1995-96). Prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration, each law is first published as a slip law and then later compiled into a volume of the Statutes at Large. The Public Laws database contains the text of each law enacted, and is updated irregularly as the publication of a slip law is authorized by the OFR.
Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975)
This Federal database contains the full text of Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937 and 1975. It is meant as a finding aid to the official version in the United States Reports. The most recent opinions can be found on the Supreme Court - Opinions site. Online access to all the decisions is available from LexisNexis.
United States Code
The United States Code in contains the general and permanent laws of the United States. These are searchable and browsable. 1994 through 2000 plus Supplements.
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