State Legislative Documents: A Finding Guide: Historical Resources

ndex to the legislative, constitutional, administrative, executive, and court records that were included in LC's State Records Microfilm Project. Most materials date from the seventeenth though nineteenth centuries. Cornell does not own the microfilm set, but may borrow reels from the Center for Research Libraries via Interlibrary Loan. Circulating copy available at Uris Library Z1223.5.A1 U47+

"This book lists the party affiliation of every state legislator from 1796 through the elections of 2006. Information on each state includes a summary of how its electoral process developed, including the origins and stipulations of each state’s constitution, the terms and size of the legislature, and other details pertaining to the history of the state’s legislative branch"-- publisher.

A state document checklist is defined as a regularly published bibliographic list of all current state documents...identified to have been published by the state. This volume attempts to include all state document checklists so defined for all 50 states. Also available at the Law Library.

A bibliographic guide to general reference publications, such as legislative manuals and blue books, for each of the states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Dated, so it's best suited for historical research.

Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Search the statutes by state, date, description and text. Coverage goes back until 1717.