To search all of the free internet sites listed, use the search box below:
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Legislative
- 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the United States, Analysis and Interpretation (Analysis of each clause of the constitution, citing to leading cases, historical documents, etc.)
- Founders' Constitution (Constitution with historical documents surrounding its creation.)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
Judicial
- 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
- via Oyez (audio)
- Supreme Court Argument Transcripts (written transcripts)
- 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
Administrative & Executive
- 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)
General Legal Information
- 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)