The Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Bahamas Independence Order 1973 (S.I. 1973 No.1080)
- 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
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
Executive
- Government
- Bahamas: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
Judicial
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Assembly
- Bills, Laws, and Acts
- Bahamas Laws On-Line includes statute law, subsidiary legislation, and statutory instruments
- NATLEX: The Bahamas (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Bahamas (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- ForIntLaw: Bahamas (Washburn University Law Library)
- Update: Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina; GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Bahamas (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from North America: Bahamas (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Library of Congress) includes the Bahamas; November 1987
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: 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 Human Rights Practices: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Human Rights in Bahamas (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Latin American Network Information Center: Bahamas (University of Texas, Austin)
- LIBRARY Bahamas Library Service
- National Archives of the Bahamas
- NEWS: BBC World News: Latin America & Caribbean
- U.S. Embassy, Nassau (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: The Bahamas (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Health Organization: Bahamas
- Yahoo: The Bahamas
Last Updated: 01/29/2012
