Free Websites for Legal Research: Presidential Documents

Official version of a signed executive order is published in the Federal Register, and then it is reprinted in Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations.Blog post from the UNC Law Library dated 2/24/17

GPO's Federal Digital System

from 1929-present.

The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley & Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

from the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

Yale Law Journal Note from April 2015 by Erica Newland

Contained in the Congressional Record

How to research them from the Law Library of Congress.

Presidential Proclamations since 1846, and pre-1950 Executive Agreements

Public and private laws are also known as slip laws. A slip law is an official publication of the law and is competent evidence admissible in all state and Federal courts and tribunals of the United States. Public laws affect society as a whole, while private laws affect an individual, family, or small group

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Presidential Proclamations since 1846, and pre-1950 Executive Agreements

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