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English: This free course book contains useful background reports on topics relevant to the subject matter of Course I: Introduction to Legal Sources in U.S. Intelligence Law. Each report was produced originally for members of Congress by legislative attorneys and subject matter experts at the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
The most common sources of authority cited are court decisions (cases), statutes, regulations, government documents, treaties, and scholarly writing. Typically, a proper legal citation will inform the reader about a source's authority, how strongly the source supports the writer's proposition, its age, and other, relevant information.
Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory. The terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything that can create, change, or cancel any right or law is considered a source of law. [1]
General references are usually listed at the end of the article in a "References" section, and are usually sorted by the last name of the author or the editor. General reference sections are most likely to be found in underdeveloped articles, especially when all article content is supported by a single source.
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is a style guide that prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. It is taught and used at a majority of U.S. law schools and is also used in a majority of federal courts.
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Paul Craig, 'Theory, "Pure Theory" and Values in Public Law' [2005] PL 440; Books follow a similar pattern. Note the order is Author, Title (Edition, Publisher Year) page. Joseph Raz, The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality (2nd edn, OUP 2009) If a title and a subtitle have nothing in between, a colon should be used to separate them.
Citations are important in Wikipedia to ensure that information comes from actual, reliable sources (WP:V, WP:CITE). There are three preferred ways of citing sources: Footnotes; Footnotes with list-defined references; Shortened footnotes