Oregon Legal Research BlogThe National Archives has a Teaching with Documents: Observing Constitution Day website. You can also visit the Library of Congress U.S. Constitution website. Happy Constitution Day!…
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Teaching Constitution Day
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If you think “Open Data” and “Government Transparency” are Easy, Free, Authentic, Accurate …
State Regulations Online Guidelines for Open Data Policies (and more from the Sunlight Foundation and Open Congress) Everyone likes open data, government transparency, consumer protections, and life online, but…
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Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports
The Legal Research Plus blog has a status report on 111th Congress H.R. 6026: “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act,” Legal Research Plus, September 20, 2010, by George Wilson…
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How to Start Your Own Political Party
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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Zombie Debt: Know Your Statute of Limitations and Other Debt Collection Laws
contacted about a debt (paid or unpaid), our recommendations: 1) Take it seriously, very seriously, and prepare to do some research2) Research the Oregon laws to find the statute of…
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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….
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Where Does Federal Digital Information Go When The Lights Go Out?
a key concern raised by AALL in a letter to members of Congress last April about the short-sighted and disappointing decision of the National Archives and Records Administration…
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Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #10 (Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 11-17)
profit, until he shall have accounted for, and paid over according to law, all sums for which he may be liable.– Section 12. Temporary appointments to office. In all cases,…
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Oregon and Public Records: OMB Watch and OpenUpOregon
Have you seen this Moving toward a 21st Century Right to Know Agenda from OMB Watch (Recommendations to President-elect Obama and Congress)? See also the professor who Commented on…
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U.S. Constitution, 17th Amendment: Election of Senators
the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. Supplemental reading on the U.S. Constitution from the Law Library of Congress….