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Compilations
- Selected Compilations and Other Congressional Committee Prints
in the Law Library Reading Room Reference Collection
Election
Resources - last updated March 8, 2002
Impeachment
Resources - last updated March 12, 2002
Research
Guide on Impeachment
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A Century
of Lawmaking For a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and
Debates, 1774-1873 - includes the following primary source
documents:
- American
State Papers - 38 v. (1789-1838)
- Annals
of Congress - 1st Cong. - 18th Cong., 1st Sess. (1789-1824)
- Bills
and Resolutions: House
- 6th Cong., 1st Sess. (1799-1800); 7th Cong., 2d Sess. - 10th
Cong., 2d Sess. (1802-1809); 11th Cong., 3d Sess. (1810-1811);
13th Cong., 2d Sess. - 42d Cong. (1813-1873)
- Bills
and Resolutions: Senate
- 16th Cong.- 42d Cong. (1823-1873)
- Bills
and Resolutions: Senate
Joint Resolutions - 18th Cong., 2d Sess. - 19th Cong., 1st
Sess. (1824-1826); 21st- 42d Cong. (1829-1873)
- Congressional
Globe - 23d Cong. - 42d Cong. (1833-1873)
- Congressional
Record - 43d Cong. (1873-1875) * excludes Daily Digest
- Elliot's
Debates - Constitutional Convention (1787)
- Farrand's
Records - Constitutional Convention (1787)
- House
Journal - 1st Cong. - 42d Cong. (1789-1873)
- Journals
of the Continental Congress - 34 v. (September 1774-March
1789)
- Letters
of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 - 26 v.
- Maclay's
Journal - 1st Cong. (1789-1791)
- Register
of Debates - 18th Cong., 2d Sess. - 25th Cong., 1st Sess.
(1824-1837)
- Senate
Executive Journal - 1st Cong. - 42d Cong. (1789-1873)
- Senate
Journal - 1st Cong. - 42d Cong. (1789-1873)
- Serial
Set - selected documents and reports only; from the 23d
Cong. (1833-1835), 25th Cong. (1837-1839), 27th Cong. (1841-1843),
30th Cong - 42d Cong. (1847-1873), 45th Cong. (1877-1879), 49th
Cong. - 54th Cong. (1855-1897), 56th Cong. - 61st Cong, (1899-1911);
63d Cong. - 64th Cong. (1913-1917); Maps
- Statutes
at Large - v. 1-18; 1st Cong. - 42d Cong. (1789-1875)
A Century of Lawmaking
For a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
includes the following special presentations:
Global
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Guide to Law
Online
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- lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of other
jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, providing additional
identifying information about titles, beyond what is provided
by the Library Catalog.
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Journals and
Periodicals - To determine which law journals are available
for immediate use in the reading room's reference collection,
consult this list of law titles or search the Library
of Congress catalog. Current issues of approximately 350 law
journals and periodicals are shelved at the LLRR Desk and available
upon request. The last ten years of about 170 of these titles
may be found on reading room shelves.
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@51K]- The reference collection contains 20,000 items, approximately
2% of the Law Library's 2.3 million items. Consult the LLRR Locator
for frequently requested items available in the reading room.
Otherwise, search the Library
of Congress catalog.
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