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United States' Founding Documents:

The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration, explaining the act of Independence, was approved July 4, 1776. The date of the affirmative vote on the Lee-Adams resolution, the actual act of independence was July 2, 1776.

This text of the Declaration includes introductory notes about the origins of the document, the signers and the revolutionary war

The Articles of Confederation
Submitted to the states in 1777 and fully ratified in 1781.

This text includes notes about the document's origins.

U.S. Constitution
Approved by Congress September, 1787; In force, March 4, 1789.

This text includes notes about the origins of the document and a search form for an analyzed, interpreted and annotated version.

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U.S. Code
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The United States Code is prepared and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives' and contains the general and permanent laws of the United States in effect as of January 1994 or January 1995 depending on the title. The database is updated periodically, annotating changes to individual sections. Whole titles are superseded annually as the editing process for each title is completed.

Search the Code of Federal Regulations
UCAL/USGPO
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive Department and agencies of the Federal Government.

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Organization of U. S. Federal Court System

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U.S. Supreme Court

Created by the Federal Judiciary Act, adopted Sept. 24, 1789 under authority of the Third Article of the United States Constitution, adopted March 4, 1789.

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
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Searchable database (US Reports 150-, 1893-).
Browsable by year and US Reports volume number.
Searchable by citation, case title and full text.

Selected US Supreme Court Opinions Older than 1936
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules
U. S. Supreme Court calendar for this term
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

These thirteen courts are under the Supreme Court but higher courts than the district courts. Eleven of these courts have case jurisdiction over geographic areas of states, consisting of at least 3 states each, as well as the U.S. Tax Court and certain federal administrative agencies.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia hears cases from the District of Columbia. It also has appellate jurisdiction in legislation concerning various departments of the federal government.The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has national jurisdiction over specific types of cases.

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U.S. District Courts

The 94 U.S. district courts are the federal courts of general trial jurisdiction. There is at least one in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. There is often more than one in large or populous districts. Each district also has a bankruptcy unit.

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