LibGuides: Government Documents and Resources: Federal Resources

Resources on the U.S. Federal Government

The following links provide access to information on and from the three branches of the United States Government.

The Executive Branch
The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government is comprised of many different departments and agencies, of which the President is the head.
The Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government is comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the Congress. Congress has sole authority to enact legislation and declare war, the right to confirm or reject many Presidential appointments, and substantial investigative powers.
The Judicial Branch
The Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government is comprised of the Supreme Court, U.S. district courts, and U.S. courts of appeals. It is the only branch whose members are appointed by the President (and confirmed by the Senate) rather than elected by the people.

HathiTrust

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.