PSC 470 American Constitutional Traditions

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PSC 470American Constitutional Traditions

• Resources and Research Strategies
• Bill Anger Ed ODonnell
• October 5, 2005

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• Electronic Resources

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Firstgov.gov

• U.S. governments official web portal
• Searches web pages from federal, state, and local
  government
• Good source to access state constitutions

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Lexis-Nexis Academic

• Law review articles
• Federal and state legal cases
• U.S. Supreme Court decisions
• State codes

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GPO Access

• Official website of the United States Government
  Printing Office
• Source for Congressional Record publishes
  Congressional debates

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of
  international serials literature in political
  science
• Coverage includes environmental policy, economic
  policy, government/political systems, politics
  and law
• Coverage from 1975-present
• Some full text available through Article Linker