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Executive departments, bureaus, and agencies issue reports, bulletins, circulars, and othermaterials. Include the name of an identified author after the title.N: 30. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting a Report fromthe Register of the Treasury of the Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the Year Ending the30th of June, 1850, 31st Cong., 2d sess., House Executive Document 8 (Washington, DC, 1850–51).B: U.S. Department of the Interior. Minerals Management Service. An Oilspill Risk Analysis for theCentral Gulf (April 1984) and Western Gulf of Mexico (July 1984), by Robert P. LaBelle. Open-filereport, U.S. Geological Survey. Denver, 1984.U.S. Bureau of the Census. Median Gross Rent by Counties of the United States, 1970. Prepared by theGeography Division in cooperation with the Housing Division, Bureau of the Census. Washington, DC:Government Printing Office, 1975.Cite bulletins, circulars, reports, and study papers issued by government commissions suchas the Federal Communications Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commissionmuch like legislative reports. They are often classified as House (H) or Senate (S) documents.N: 32. Senate, Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Utility Corporations, 70th Cong., 1st sess., 1935,S. Doc. 91, pt. 71A.B: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Annual Report of the Securities and ExchangeCommission for the Fiscal Year. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1983.17.9.5 U.S. ConstitutionThe U.S. Constitution should be cited only in notes; you need not include it in yourbibliography. Include the article or amendment, section, and, if relevant, clause. Use arabicnumerals and, if you prefer, abbreviations for terms such as amendment and section.N: 32. U.S. Constitution, art. 2, sec. 1, cl. 3.33. U.S. Constitution, amend. 14, sec. 2.In many cases, you can use a parenthetical note (see 16.4.3) or even include the identifyinginformation in your text. Spell out the names of parts in text. Capitalize the names of specificamendments when used in place of numbers.The U.S. Constitution, in article 1, section 9, forbids suspension of the writ “unless when in Cases ofRebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”The First Amendment protects the right of free speech.17.9.6 TreatiesThe texts of treaties signed before 1949 are published in United States Statutes at Large; theunofficial citation is to the Treaty Series or the Executive Agreement Series. Those signed in1949 or later appear in United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST,1950–), or Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS, 1946–). Treaties involvingmore than two nations may be found in the United Nations Treaty Series: Treaties andwww.itpub.net