Government & Foreign Affairs

Virginia

Virginia.gov's Government page
Links to the State Government Branches, the General Assembly, the Virginia Code, State Agencies and more. From the Commonwealth of Virginia's home page.

United States

FirstGov
Links to an A-Z agency index plus the sites of the executive, legislative and judicial branches, tribal governments and state and local sites. See also FirstGov in Spanish

AmericanPresident.org
From the Miller Center of Public Affairs in Charlottesville. Has sections on the Presidency in History and the Presidency in Action. Another resource for information on U.S. Presidents is POTUS.

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
Search or browse this database of U.S. Supreme Court Justices from John Jay to Stephen Breyer and cases, by subject. From Northwestern University political science professor, Jerry Goldman.

Government Printing Office Documents (GPO Access)
Access government information including the last three years of Congressional Bills, the Congressional Record and CR Index, The Federal Register, the History of Congressional Bills, the U.S. Government Manual, the U.S. Code, and much more.

Thomas Archive
Searchable databases of the Congressional Record, pending congressional bills, a copy of the Constitution, and links to the Web pages of the House and Senate.

General Accounting Office Reports
From the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of the United States, from 1978 - current.

International

UVA Library's Guide to Select Web Resources for International Organizations. Links to numerous free and UVA-only databases and web sites, including U.N, European Union and OECD databases plus the National Security Archives.

International Documents Collection from Northwestern University. See Key Web Resources, links to sites of Foreign Governments and resources By Region

CIA World Factbook
Iinformation on Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Transnational Issues of world nations. See also the Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks.

Rulers of the World
Lists heads of state and government for all currently existing countries . See also World Statesmen, a directory of world leaders for more than 200 countries and territories, dozens of religious organizations from the 18th century to the present.

Constitution Finder
Alphabetical index to constitutions, charters, amendments, and other documents for over 150 countries around the world. Maintained by the University of Richmond School of Law.

U.N.Pulse
"... just-released UN system-wide online information, major reports. See also Infonation, a handy comparative statistical database from the United Nations Statistical Division covering over 180 UN-member countries.

Inter-Parliamentary Union
Links to searchable databases on parliaments in nearly 200 countries around the world, plus a periodical and book index of nearly 200 subjects in 30 different languages dating back to 1992.

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