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  2. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    However, most executive branch and judicial branch [citation needed] regulations must originate in a congressional grant of power. See also : Executive orders issued by the President; Code of Federal Regulations for rules issued by executive branch departments and administrative agencies; and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure of the federal ...

  3. Legal executive - Wikipedia

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    Legal executives are a kind of trained legal professional in certain jurisdictions. They often specialise in a particular area of law.A legal executive usually receives both vocational training (a minimum of 3 years for those in England and Wales) and academic training.

  4. Code of Federal Regulations - Wikipedia

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    A few volumes of the CFR at a law library (titles 12–26) In the law of the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent regulations promulgated by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States. The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent ...

  5. Independent agencies of the United States government

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    Independent agencies exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. [ 1 ] : 6 There is a further distinction between independent executive agencies and independent regulatory agencies, which have been assigned rulemaking responsibilities or authorities by Congress.

  6. List of federal agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The President of the United States is the chief executive of the federal government. He is in charge of executing federal laws and approving, or vetoing, new legislation passed by Congress. The President resides in the Executive Residence (EXR) maintained by the Office of Administration (OA).

  7. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."

  8. Executive order - Wikipedia

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    President Harry Truman's Executive Order 10340 placed all the country's steel mills under federal control, which was found invalid in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952), because it attempted to make law, rather than to clarify or to further a law put forth by the Congress or the Constitution. Presidents since that decision ...

  9. Lists of legislation - Wikipedia

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    List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) List of acts of the Scottish Parliament (1999 onwards) List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland (to 1800) List of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; List of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly; List of acts of the Oireachtas; List of laws of Guernsey; List of laws of Jersey; List ...