[jfahler03]

Greetings all:

Here is a list of links with resources for this forum that will hopefully help you all out in the future if you find yourself wanting to discuss and/or debate in the Government and Economics forum here at CGR. I’m going to try to include both sources for the U.S. and Canada; but since I’m not very experienced when it comes to Canadian government don’t consider the Canadian side of things nearly complete. Also, this list might be helpful for any political science and/or economics papers you might run across in school.

Another thing… I’ll warn you: just as the list will be heavier on the American side, it will also be heavy on the government side of things as well. I am not the most experienced in economics, though I know the basics (and when I mean basics, I mean basics) of systems, theories, etc. For now, this thread will remain a sticky thread closed only to me. If you want to contribute, PM me with what you want to add on to it and I’ll open it up to you.

General resources in government:
Political Philosophy by Paul Newall
Basic information on the study of political philosophy – aimed at beginners.
http://www.galilean-library.org/int9.html

Mondo Politico: Political Books, Online and Free (full text)
http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/

General resources in economics:

Wikipedia: Economic System
Basic information with links on world economic systems – please remember that Wikipedia’s content isn’t as regulated as most sources although it still can be useful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system

Resources in United States government:

THOMAS (Library of Congress)
Legislative information from the Library of Congress, including resolutions, bills, and laws in full text format.
http://thomas.loc.gov

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Preserving historical documents in HTML format. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/

The United States Constitution at The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/usconst.htm

The Declaration of Independence at the Indiana University School of Law
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

Documents from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html

Find Law
Legal Resources - Click on the "For Legal Professionals" tab for a search for entire text of United States court cases. Good for landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education.
http://www.findlaw.com

[jfahler03]

Some more links:

Congressional Districts at Nationalatlas.gov:

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html

US Library of Congress Guide to Law Online:

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/

[jfahler03]

Some more links, one for government regarding political parties (as an offshoot from the "Why are you a Democrat/Republican/Whatever" Thread) and the other regarding basic economics.

The first is the chart I mentioned called the Nolan Chart. Published by David Nolan in a Libertarian-oriented magazine, it rejects the old and cumbersome linear left/right wings concepts of government. Check it out at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart

The second relates to basic supply and demand as they are vital to Capitalist economics. It's also from Wikipedia, but it's the best I've come up with without annoying ads or questionable material.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Also, while I'm at it I might mention the importance of the Macroeconomic theory of John Maynard Keynes. Whether you like him or not, he has developed a system of economics that continues to impact us through the present day. Wikipedia also has a decent article on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics