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• 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Administering Justice: Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Richard L. Vining and Teena Wilhelm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Liberty, Equality, and Due Process: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts in Constitutional Law (third edition; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2021), by Ruthann Robson (HTML with commentary at cali.org)
• Twilight of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Pierre Schlag (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The 21st Century Constitution (c1992), by Barry Krusch (PDF at krusch.com)
• Corwin's Constitution: Essays and Insights of Edward S. Corwin (New York et al.: Greenwood Press, c1986), by Edward S. Corwin, ed. by Kenneth D. Crews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 (Washington: GPO, 1953), by United States, ed. by Edward S. Corwin (Gutenberg text)
• Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2003), by Melvin Urofsky (PDF at usembassy.de)
• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Ruthann Robson (revised first edition: multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Federalist, Edited With Introduction and Notes (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, c1961), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by Jacob Ernest Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal Justice, New Technologies, and the Constitution (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• American Constitutional Law (2 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1889), by J. I. Clark Hare
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America, by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, ed. by Jon Roland (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
• New Views of the Constitution of the United States (Washington: Printed for the author by Way and Gideon, 1823), by John Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, by Lysander Spooner
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Fourmilab
• Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States (ca. 1859), by John Brown
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers
• Recent Changes in American Constitutional Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1947), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, contrib. by Edward Gaylord Bourne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Credo de Liberdade: A Constituicao dos Estados Unidos e Outros Documentos Historicos (in Portuguese; Washington: U. S. Dept. of State Central Translating Office, 1945), by United States, contrib. by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitution and Mr. Motley, by Rowland E. Evans (page images at MOA)
• The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (editions and supplements from 1992 to the present), by United States (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820), by John Taylor (multiple formats at Google)
• The Federalist, a Commentary on the Constitution of the United States: A Collection of Essays by Alexander Hamilton, Jay and Madison; Also The Continentalist and Other Papers, by Hamilton (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1864), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by John C. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federalist, a Commentary on the Constitution of the United States: A Collection of Essays by Alexander Hamilton, Jay and Madison; Also The Continentalist and Other Papers, by Hamilton (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1871), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by John C. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  • HTML at congress.gov
  • Gutenberg text
• Le Fédéraliste (Commentaire de la Constitution des États-Unis), Recueil d'Articles Écrits en Faveur de la Nouvelle Constitution Telle qu'Elle à Été Adoptée par la Convention Fédérale le 17 Septembre 1787 (new French edition; Paris: V. Giard et E. Brière, 1902), by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, trans. by Gaston Jèze, contrib. by A. Esmein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de Quelques Écrits en Faveur de la Constitution Proposée aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, par la Convention Convoquée en 1787 (Federalist Papers translated into French in 2 volumes; Paris: Buisson, 1792), by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
  • Book 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story (Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1852), by Joseph Story, ed. by William Wetmore Story (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of American Slavery; Together With the Powers and Duties of the Federal Government in Relation to That Subject (Cleveland: J. Calyer, ca. 1849), by Joel Tiffany
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • bound with another work: page images at HathiTrust
• A View of the Constitution of the United States of America (second edition; Philadelphia: P. H. Nicklin, 1829), by William Rawle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Business of the Supreme Court: A Study in the Federal Judicial System (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States (New York: Vanguard Press, American Civil Liberties Union, c1927), by Leon Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 (2 volumes; New York: J. and A. M'Lean, 1788), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  • both volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: HTML at Evans TCP
• The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788 (new editions, with an appendix and Madison's revisions of his papers; Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith and Co, 1857), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at ohiomemory.org
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by J. G. Randall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Federal Usurpation (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Franklin Pierce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Constitution for the United States of the World, Proposed by Victoria C. Woodhull for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1872), by Victoria C. Woodhull (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The U.S. Constitution: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study, by Harry A. Butowsky (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

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