How a Bill Becomes Law!
How a Bill Becomes Law!
eBooks on U.S. & AZ. Constitution
The Legislative Branch of Federal Government: U.S. Constitution and the Federal Legislature by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781851097173Publication Date: 2008-08-28This volume focuses on the U.S. Congress, its history, constitutional powers, daily workings, and the politics that affect its operation.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law: Administrative Law and Procedure by ISBN: 9780787693732Publication Date: 2004-11-01Administrative law is the body of law that allows for the creation of public regulatory agencies and contains all of the statutes, judicial decisions, and regulations that govern them. It is created by administrative agencies to implement their powers and duties in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions. Administrative procedure constitutes the methods and processes before administrative agencies, as distinguished from judicial procedure, which applies to courts
U.S. Constitution - Read the Fine Print!
The written text of the state and federal constitutions. The body of judicial precedent that has gradually developed through a process in which courts interpret, apply, and explain the meaning of particular constitutional provisions and principles during a legal proceeding. Executive, legislative, and judicial actions that conform with the norms prescribed by a constitutional provision.
Crash Course on the U.S. Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through its war with England, they weren't of much use when it came to running a country. So, the founding fathers decided try their hand at nation-building, and they created the Constitution of the United States, which you may remember as the one that says We The People at the top. John will tell you how the convention came together, some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and why it's very lucky that the framers installed a somewhat reasonable process for making changes to the thing. You'll learn about Shays' Rebellion, the Federalist Papers, the elite vs rabble dynamic of the houses of congress, and start to find out just what an anti-federalist is.
Legal Websites
Court decisions often may be accessed via subscription databases and the Internet.
The following websites provide free access to court decisions:
Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com/ (choose “case law”, select court(s), and search by citation, case name, or keyword)
Public Library of Law, http://www.plol.org/Pages/Search.aspx
(free; registration required)
Findlaw, http://caselaw.findlaw.com/
Justia, http://law.justia.com/cases/
Leagle, http://www.leagle.com/
Cornell Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School):Federal cases:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/opinions.html
State cases: http://www.law.cornell.edu/opinions.html
Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online:Federal cases:
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/federal/usjudic.php
State cases: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/states.php
The Supreme Court of the United States places recent decisions, as well as bound volumes of the United States Reports back to volume 502 (October 1991 term), on its website,
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/opinions.aspx.
Links to the websites of Federal courts, some of which include court decisions, may be found on the website of the Administrative Office of the US Courts,
http://www.uscourts.gov/court_locator.aspx.
For free caselaw (and statutes) on your mobile device, Fastcase offers a free app with registration,
http://www.fastcase.com/iphone/.
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