Legal Research Sources

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Purpose for this page: We tell you in our Great IRS Hoax book that you should verify everything we say for yourself so that:
- You won't be easily intimidated by your covetous and unscrupulous government opponent.
- You can have a personal knowledge and belief that what we are saying is true.
However, you can't do this unless you know where to obtain and read statutes, regulations and cases as a legal researcher. The purpose of this article is to show you where to obtain various legal references and authorities so that you can verify our cites for yourself.
If you would like an extensive training course on how to do legal research, we highly recomend the following FREE course provided by SEDM:
Legal Research and Writing Techniques Course, Form #12.013 (OFFSITE LINK)
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Legal Research DVD- by Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
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Authorities on why everyone should read and learn and know the law.

“One who turns his ear from hearing the law [God's law or man's law], even his prayer is an abomination.”
[Prov. 28:9, Bible, NKJV]

"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
[Joshua 1:8-9, Bible, NKJV,
IMPLICATION: If you aren't reading and trying to obey God's law daily, then you're not doing God's will and you will not prosper]

"Every citizen of the United States is supposed to know the law [God's law and man's law]. . ."
[Floyd Acceptances, 7 Wall (74 U.S. 169) 666 (1869);
IMPLICATION: Any citizen that does not know and follow the law is a BAD citizen!]
Cites by Topic: Law
For a listing of Titles of the United States Code which have been enacted into "positive law", see 1 U.S.C. §204 legislative notes on the Cornell website or 1 U.S.C. 204 on the government website. Click here (OFFSITE LINK) for an important article on why people in states of the Union should know what titles of the U.S. Code are not positive law and not follow those that aren't.
The links found in the "Authority" column are our favorite source within that particular row.
For court cases above, when a four digit number appears below the link, that number is the earliest year for which information is available on court cases.
Our favorite source for legal abbreviations and definitions is Black's Law Dictionary. We have the Sixth Edition. Older versions of this book are better than later versions because of a systematic attempt on the part of the legal profession to remove key definitions in order to illegally expand the jurisdiction of both the federal government and the income tax. See section 6.7 of the Great IRS Hoax for further details on this scandal. If you want a FREE copy of Black's Law Dictionary, Second Edition, 1910, you can download it from item 5.5 in the table above.

Costs of the various online electronic legal research services:

*Service*	*Phone*	*Plans*	Comments
AccessLaw	775-753-4870	$29/mo with $40 startup fee	They have California law as well as U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789 online and on CD-ROM.
CFS Tax Research CD-ROM	800-343-1157	$99 CD-ROM	Contains I.R.C., 26 CFR, Revenue Rulings, and IRM.
Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII)	NA	Free	Excellent.
Fastcase		$95/month	State courts back to 1950. Federal caselaw back to the beginning. Federal District Courts cost extra.
Findlaw	NA	Free	Federal district court cases only go back a couple years.
Google Scholar	NA	Free	State courts back to 1950. U.S. Supreme Court to 1791. No shepardizing.
Lawnet	877-452-9638	$595/year	State courts back to 1950. Federal courts back to about 1900. Equalizer 7.0 custom application does searching.
Lexis-Nexis	800-227-4908	Very expensive	The most extensive on the web, and you pay a premium for it.
LoisLaw	877-471-5634	Federal Collection: $175/mo.	Includes 1 state plus all 13 fed ckt courts, Fed district courts, Supreme court, fed register, U.S. Code, CFR, Fed rules, Tax court rules):
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)		Free	Federal Register, government records. Sponsored by U.S. government.
Versus Law	888-377-8752	Standard: $13.95/mo Premium: $24.95/mo Professional: $39.95/mo	State courts back to 1950. Have Federal District and Circuit courts. Federal District Courts are extra (Premium plan). U.S. Codes and regulations have a LAME interface, that makes it impossible to browse to drill down into what you are looking for. Good for people just starting off. No Shepardizing.
West Law	800-762-5272	Basic: $241/mo.	State and federal caselaw back to the beginning. Keycite is powerful and unique. Plan includes 1-2 attorneys plus up to 2 paralegals. The most expensive of all options.

If you want an economical way to subscribe to the more expensive research services listed above, we suggest the following approach:
Many of the above plans allow several attorneys and paralegals on a single account. Most law offices have surplus accounts or "seats" that they aren't using as part of the "plan" offered by their provider. Get your phone book and start calling law offices. Start at the END of the alphabet in the phone book, where the HUNGRIEST lawyers are. Talk to the lead attorney and make him a business proposition. Offer to share his cost for the service in exchange for an account. Since the service can cost him upwards of $300/month, he'll want to defray this cost. The only way to make it worthwhile for you is if he charges you no more than half his cost for the service. Offer him between $50/month on up to about $100/month and see if he will "bite". If he agrees, pay him monthly and have him create an account for you under his law firm. JUST A THOUGHT.
The Federal Depository Libraries are located at major universities and county law libraries. They are free but unfortunately, whatever research you want must be photocopied. If you want to minimize your photocopying expense at these libraries, one good approach we use is to bring along a digital camera with a large memory module and simply take a picture of the pages you want with the camera in high resolution mode. Make sure you have the flash turned on when you do this so that you get good contrast. Then bring it home and make an Acrobat file out of the digital images.
For jury instructions, our favorite source is:
Federal Jury Practice and Instructions; Devitt, Blackmar, Wolff & O'Malley; Fourth Edition; 1992; West Publishing; Library of Congress Card # 92-060572.
To look up the elements of any legal claim, our favorite source is:
American Jurisprudence Proof of Claims 3d.
If you are involved in litigation against the U.S. government, the best source is:
Civil Actions Against the United States, Second Edition; Thomson-West; 2002; ISBN 0-07-0172449-4.
The best source we have found that describes how to research federal tax matters is the following book:
Federal Tax Research: Guide to Materials and Techniques, Fifth Edition; Gail Levin Richmond; Foundation Press, 1997, Westbury, New York; ISBN 1-56662-457-6.
If you are attempting to obtain documents from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act or the Privacy Act, our favorite references on this subject are:
- Citizens Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act to Request Government Documents
- IRS Disclosure Litigation Reference Book, Document 8448
- Important Government Contacts
The first year published for various significant research sources are as follows:
- U.S. Codes: 1926. Before that, it was the Statutes at large only.
- Code of Federal Regulations: 1938.
For additional Legal Research Sources, consult: Duke University, Law Library
If you are looking for the absolute best electronic reference tool for studying Biblical law and doctrine, Logos Research Systems makes the Libronix Series X Bible Software in several editions. The top of the line version is the Scholar's Library Gold Edition. This is the one we have and it is VERY good.
If you want a good reference on how to apply the laws of several competing or conflicting jurisdictions to a specific case, we highly recommend the following book:
Conflicts in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, by David Siegel and Patrick J. Borchers, Thomson West, ISBN 0-314-16066-3, 2005.
If you want to know what state law judges think about the arguments used on this website and how they are typically directed to respond to them, please read:
The Anti Government Movement Guidebook-NCSC
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is copyrighted statutory law which is published by UNIDROIT.
The following diagram depicts the organization of this page in graphical format. This organization is based on the sequence that things were created, which in turn determines the hierarchy of sovereignty of all things. For further information on this subject, see How Scoundrels Corrupted Our Republican Form of Government.

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