Constitution Executive JUDGES AND JUSTICE Legislative Legal Reference General Sources (includes LC Portals: Bahamas)

CONSTITUTIONAL LINKS

• Bahamas Constitution, 1973 (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) in English
• International Constitutional Law: Bahamas Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

• Government
• Executive Branch - includes Governor; Prime Minister
• Bahamas: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

JUDGES AND JUSTICE

• Judiciary Branch - Supreme Court

LEGISLATURE AND ELECTED

• PARLIAMENT: Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Assembly
• Laws and Acts (Commonwealth of the Bahamas)
• NATLEX: The Bahamas (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Reference AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Bahamas (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Bahamas (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina via GlobaLex) May 2006
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bahamas (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Bahamas (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from North America: Bahamas (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Library of Congress) includes the Bahamas; November 1987
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Bahamas ()
• Background Notes: The Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Bahamas (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: The Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Western Hemisphere
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Bahamas (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Bahamas (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• U.S. Embassy, Nassau (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: The Bahamas (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Bahamas (Google); Bahamas (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Bahamas (University of Texas, Austin)