Research Guides: PSCI 3281: DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS: Home

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Welcome! This guide is designed to help you find information you will need for PSCI 3281. The guide will has for sections, 3 based on the 3 branches of the U.S. Federal Government and 1 that will help you with other kinds of questions.

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Executive Branch (President)

Databases

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ProQuest Congressional Legislative & Executive Publications
Detailed information about Congress and domestic and foreign policy issues.Hearings are good primary sources for almost any issue. Includes Executive Branch Documents 1789-1939 and Executive Proclamations and Presidential Orders 1789-present.
Legislative Insight
Provides a legislative history for significant laws from 1789 to the present. A legislative history tracks all of the publications produced from when a bill is introduced into Congress until it becomes law.

Websites

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Presidents of the United States
Presidential Libraries
A link to the National Archives (NARA) page for Presidential Libraries. NARA is the official reocord keeper of executive documents.
Presdential inaugural Adresses
White House
The Official Website of the the President and the Executive Branch.

Legislative (Congress)

Databases

ProQuest Congressional Legislative & Executive Publications
Detailed information about Congress and domestic and foreign policy issues.Hearings are good primary sources for almost any issue. Includes Executive Branch Documents 1789-1939 and Executive Proclamations and Presidential Orders 1789-present.
Nexis Uni
Comprehensive source for local, regional and national newspapers in the United States, plus some international sources. Strong source for legal, company (including private), and country research.

Websites

Congress
The offcial website of Congress
U.S. House
The offical website of the U.S. House
Senate
The offical website of the U.S. Sentate
GovTracker Stats
GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics.

Judicial (Supreme Court)

Databases

Nexis Uni
Comprehensive source for local, regional and national newspapers in the United States, plus some international sources. Strong source for legal, company (including private), and country research.
Legislative Insight
Provides a legislative history for significant laws from 1789 to the present. A legislative history tracks all of the publications produced from when a bill is introduced into Congress until it becomes law.

Websites