Oregon Legal Research Blog…Congress. (Voting rights for 16 year olds or clapping is allowed only at the end of the State of the Union Address, maybe?) Take a look at this, “Nine Steps…
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How to Start Your Own Political Party
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Eight-grade 1930 Civics Lesson Questions: Describe good seed corn
…type.– Is there more profit in raising pure-bred poultry than in grade fowls?– What is meant by the Congress of the United States?– Mention two powers of the President of…
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You Say State, I say Federal; You say Justice, and I say Judiciary
…courts, but we’ll leave that complication for another day.) c) Legislative branch: think U.S. Congress or your state legislature, e.g. Oregon Legislature. They make the laws that show up in…
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Honest Services Law: Honestly, now!
…those readers may very well grow up to become members of Congress who moan “I haven’t even read the bill” way too often to make me comfortable about the future…
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Constitution Day 2009 in Oregon
…Washington County Law Library, in Hillsboro. For more information about Constitution Day: 1) Constitution Day is Every Day, at the Law Librarian Blog. 2) Library of Congress, Constitution Day And…
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Finding U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
…Congress guide 3) Official U.S. Supreme Court website has several links to sources of briefs. 4) Guides: LLRX Supreme Court Web Guide (including a section on briefs) 5) Run a…
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Without Clothes in Oregon: the Art and Craft of Drafting Legislation
…has the problem of people who think they know what a statute says but don’t really, not having read its actual text, e.g. (111th Congress) H.R. 3200, ¶ 1233, which…
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Reading Saves Consumer Time, Money, and Lives
…Financial Protection Agency or 2009 bill (H.R. 3126) now in Congress. (You can also search for more Google links with this search string: Consumer Financial Protection Agency site:.gov )…
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Right to Honest Services: 18 USC 1346
…(not that there weren’t others equally portentous). My legal research adventures are much less heady now, but I still wonder, especially when reading news of Congress and the Courts: whatever…
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Who are “the people?” What does it mean to be “born in the U.S.A.”?
…materials at the Library of Congress (which, you will note, is not called the Library of The People), here and here. It is the simplist questions that stump us….