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Law

Federal | State

American Law Sources On-Line
<http://www.lawsource.com/also/>

The purpose of American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers). Coverage of American, Canadian, and Mexican laws.

FindLaw
<http://www.findlaw.com/>

For lawyers, for students, for the general public, for business.

FreeAdvice.com
<http://www.freeadvice.com>

FreeAdvice.com is a free legal site for consumers and small businesses. It provides general legal information to help people understand their legal rights in 100 legal topics, but is not a substitute for personal legal advice from an attorney.

Hieros Gamos
<http://www.hg.org/lawlibrary.html>

A comprehensive legal site: legal organizations, dictionaries, law schools, books and journals, etc.

Catalaw
<http://www.catalaw.com/>

A catalog of catalogs of law on the Internet. It helps speed research by arranging all legal and government indexes into a unique, uniform and universal metaindex.

Federal

The Constitution of the United States of America
<http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/toc.html>

An annotated version.

U.S. Code
<http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/>

U.S. law searchable by title, subject, and section.

Code of Federal Regulations
<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html>

An annual codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
<http://thomas.loc.gov/>

Search for legislation, the Congressional Record, and committee information.

U.S. House of Representatives
<http://www.house.gov/>

Find your representative.

U.S. Senate
<http://www.senate.gov/>

Find your senators.

State


Texas State Government
<http://www.state.tx.us/>

Among other things, includes an alphabetical listing of all state agencies.

Office of the Governor
<http://www.governor.state.tx.us/>

Texas Legislature Online
<http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/>

Find out who your representative is; search Bills by number, subject, author, or keywork; learn about committee membership, etc.

Texas Senate
<http://www.senate.state.tx.us/>

Senate business and legislation, senators, committees, and more.

Texas Judiciary Online
<http://www.courts.state.tx.us/>

A good way into the Judicial Branch: includes access to municipal, county, district, and appellate courts; includes the Texas Judicial System Directory Online.

Supreme Court of Texas
<http://www.courts.state.tx.us/>

All about the Supreme Court, its Justices, and downloadable court opinions.

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