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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme Court on Trial (New York: Atherton Press, 1964), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method (Hamlyn Lectures, #55; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by M. D. Kirby (PDF in the UK)

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

• Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, 2008), by Aziz Z. Huq (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), by Kenneth E. Collier (page images at Pitt)

• Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Providing Special Investigative Authorities for the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Report Together with Minority and Dissenting Views (to Accompany H. Res. 167) (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States House Committee on Rules (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2 redacted volumes in 1; 2019), by Robert S. Mueller, ed. by William Pelham Barr (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Covert Operation: Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session (4 volumes, first labeled "draft report", others labeled exhibit appendixes; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c): Communication From Kenneth W. Starr, Independent Counsel, Transmitting a Referral to the United States House of Representatives Filed in Conformity with the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, section 595(c) (the Starr Report on Clinton and Lewinsky, with appendices), by Kenneth Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Washington: GPO, 2022), by United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (PDF and text at govinfo.gov)

• Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert P. Newman (HTML at UC Press)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Annual Report, by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (partial serial archives)

• Silas Timberman (New York: Blue Heron Press, 1954), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Guarding the Guardians: Parliamentary Oversight and Civil-Military Relations: The Challenges for SADC (2004), ed. by Len Le Roux, Martin Revai Rupiya, and Naison Ngoma (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (with supporting materials; 2015), by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (PDF files at trc.ca)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Flowers in the Wall: Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017), ed. by David Webster (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kautilya's Arthasastra (Bangalore: Printed at the Government Press, 1915), by Kautalya, trans. by R. Shama Sastri, contrib. by John Faithful Fleet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Feudal Monarchy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100 to 1291 (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1932), by John L. La Monte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elementos de Derecho Administrativo (in Spanish; 1895), by Manuel Cruzado (page images at HathiTrust)

• Administrative Adjudication in the State of New York: Report to Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of the State of New York (1942), by Robert M. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manuel de Droit Public et Administratif de l'Empire Ottoman (2 volumes in French; Vienne-Leipzig: C.W. Stern, 1908-1912), by A. Heidborn
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at Gallica

• Administrative Agencies and the Courts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1951), by Frank E. Cooper, contrib. by E. Blythe Stason
  • PDF with commentary at Michigan
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Administrative Law: Its Growth, Procedure and Significance (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1942), by Roscoe Pound (page images at Pitt)
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (current, unofficial online edition of the CFR), by United States (HTML with commentary at ecfr.gov)

• Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), ed. by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo De Greiff (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• Legal Conundrums in Our Brave New World (Hamlyn Lectures, #54; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by Helena Kennedy (PDF in the UK)

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