For a discussion of sources of US legislation, see Ruth Bird's article in Legal Information Management, 2006, 6(3), 172-175 and later by Hester Swift in Legal Information Management, 2009, 9(4), 267-272. "No cost and low cost US legal research" by Alison Shea is also a good article to review (L.I.M, 2011, 11(4), 241-246) as well as its update in LIM 2016(1), 25-30.
Sources of Constitution
US Code
Public laws
Private laws
US State legislation links
Kate Follen, President of Monroe Information Services, has undertaken a blogging challenge - to create links to legislation for all 50 states in 50 weeks! Week by week, she posts links to sources of state legislative information on Monroe Infoblog. She is tackling the states in alphabetical order - last week was Week 5: California.
Each post also includes "Fast Facts" about the state’s legislative process and links to regulatory information and to the websites of state newspapers. You can receive updates on her progress by following her on Twitter @katefollen or by subscribing to a feed from her blog.
Links to state legislation are also available from the Cornell Legal Information Institute
US Presidential Executive Orders: When trying to locate US Presidential Executive Orders try the following links: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/executive_orders.php?year=2017 and http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/executive_orders.php
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