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• New South Wales General Standing Orders (2 volumes in 1; Sydney: Printed at Government Press, 1802-1806), by New South Wales, contrib. by Philip Gidley King (page images in Australia)

• Executive Orders and Proclamations: A Study of a Use of Presidential Powers (Washington: GPO, 1957), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Compilation of Proclamations, Notifications, etc. Relating to the Civil Administration and Inhabitants of Mesopotamia (issued while under post-Ottoman, pre-Mandate British rule; covering 1914-1920, published 1919-1920), by Iraq (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (current, unofficial online edition of the CFR), by United States (HTML with commentary at ecfr.gov)

• The Federal Register, by United States (full serial archives)
• Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition), by United States (partial serial archives)

• War Powers, Libya, and State-Sponsored Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 29, May 1 and 15, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress, in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery (Boston: J. L. Shorey, 1862), by William Whiting (page images at MOA)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Yukon Gazette, by Yukon (partial serial archives)

• Constitutional Reason of State: The Survival of the Constitutional Order (Providence: Brown University Press, 1957), by Carl J. Friedrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Diktatur, Von den Anfängen des Modernen Souveränitätsgedankens bis zum Proletarischen Klassenkampf (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1921), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Constitutional Reason of State: The Survival of the Constitutional Order (Providence: Brown University Press, 1957), by Carl J. Friedrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Argentine Civil-Military Relations: From Alfonsín to Menem, by Herbert C. Huser (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Ultraroyalism in Toulouse, From Its Origins to the Revolution of 1830 (originally published 1973; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Higgs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), ed. by John C. Rule (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Growth of Executive Power in Germany: A Study of the German Presidency (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 1934), by Harlow James Heneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hitler's War, by David John Cawdell Irving (PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• The Growth of Executive Power in Germany: A Study of the German Presidency (Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 1934), by Harlow James Heneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England (originally published 1933; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Grenville Papers: Being the Correspondence of Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, K.G., and the Right Hon. George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries (4 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1852-1853), by Richard Grenville Temple and George Grenville, ed. by William James Smith
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Testament of a Prime Minister (London: G. Richards, 1904), by John Davidson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• W. E. Gladstone (London: Constable and Co., c1927), by Osbert Burdett (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The "Damnatory Clauses" of the Athanasian Creed Rationally Explained in a Letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. (London et al.: Rivingtons, 1872), by Malcolm MacColl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• William Ewart Gladstone, by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
• Ritualism, by the Right Hon. W. Ewart Gladstone, M.P., Examined: The Anti-Catholic Charges Answered (London: Burns and Oates, 1874), by John Stewart McCorry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England (originally published 1933; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932-53 (London: Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2019), by Edward Owens (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Plato Redivivus: or, A Dialogue Concerning Government (second edition, 1681), by Henry Neville (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Plato Redivivus, or, A Dialogue Concerning Government: Wherein, By Observations Drawn From Other Kingdoms and States Both Ancient and Modern, an Endeavour is Used to Discover the Present Politick Distemper of Our Own, With the Causes, and Remedies (London: Printed for S.I., 1681), by Henry Neville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Necro-President: Trump, MAGA, and the Decline of the American Republic (Cham: Springer, c2025), by Dean Caivano
  • multiple formats with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War (2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary Democratic Staff (HTML and PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2008), by Aziz Z. Huq (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)
• Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), by Kenneth E. Collier (page images at Pitt)
• War Powers, Libya, and State-Sponsored Terrorism: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, April 29, May 1 and 15, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1961), by Richard E. Neustadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Executive Orders and Proclamations: A Study of a Use of Presidential Powers (Washington: GPO, 1957), by United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Roger T. Larocca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), by William H. Taft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress, in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery (Boston: J. L. Shorey, 1862), by William Whiting (page images at MOA)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• International Security and Democracy: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Post-Cold War Era (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Jorge I. Domínguez (page images at Pitt)

• The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, Being a Translation, With Notes and an Introductory Essay, of George Buchanan's "De Jure Regni Apud Scotos" (1949 translation), by George Buchanan, ed. by Charles Flinn Arrowood (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Discourses Concerning Government; To Which Are Added, Memoirs of His life, and an Apology for Himself (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751), by Algernon Sidney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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