About USA

Government and Politics

Overviews

• An Outline of American Government
  
• The Structure of the U.S. Government
  
• FirstGOV.gov - Portal to Most Federal Government Internet Sites
  
• The Constitution
  
• The Bill of Rights
  
• The Declaration of Independence

Three Branches of Government

Executive Branch

• The White House
• The President's Cabinet
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
National Security Council
Central Intelligence Agency
Environmental Protection Agency

Legislative Branch

• How Our Laws are Made
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives
  

Judicial Branch

• Overview of Judicial Branch
• Outline of the U.S. Legal System
• The Judicial Branch: Interpreting the Constitution
• An Overview of the United State Sentence Commission
• How U.S. Courts Work
• The Supreme Court 
• U.S. Code
• United States Federal Judiciary

State and Local Government Overviews

• A Country of Many Governments
• American Federalism, 1776 to 1997: Significant Events
• Reinventing American Federalism

The Presidents of the United States

• The White House
• Presidential Inaugurations
• Portraits of the President and First Ladies
• Center for the Study of the Presidency
• Presidential Libraries
• Public Papers of the Presidents
• Presidential Addresses
• National First Ladies Library