Aug 15, 2008
Landmark Supreme Court cases
Useful tool for understanding a selection of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most historically significant cases. Provides summaries of the cases, excerpts from…
Useful tool for understanding a selection of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most historically significant cases. Provides summaries of the cases, excerpts from…
Although primarily the official site of the Association, it also offers information valuable to students and the general public from immigration to tax…
Statistics on law enforcement, spending, and staffing of the federal law enforcement agencies (e.g. the FBI, IRS, and INS). From Syracuse University.
The original text of the Federalist Papers (also known as The Federalist). View or download the entire or partial plain text version of all of the Federalist…
Official website of the Supreme Court. Includes docket, oral arguments, court rules, opinions, history, etc.
Online version of the print product prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Contains: annotations of cases decided by the…
General and permanent laws of the United States enacted by Congress. Includes a Table of Popular Names, a list of common names for legislative acts. From…
Provides definitions of legal terms in “plain English.”
Basic outline of the federal lawmaking process from expression of idea to publication of statute. Courtesy of the U.S. House Parliamentarian.
Cornell Law School’s source for legal materials, including Supreme Court information, selected historical decisions, the U.S. Code, a legal encyclopedia…