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The Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- 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
Executive
- Government
- The Prime Minister - includes Governor; Prime Minister
- Bahamas: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
Judicial
- Judiciary Branch - Supreme Court
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Assembly
- Laws and Acts (Commonwealth of the Bahamas)
- NATLEX: The Bahamas (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Bahamas (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- ForIntLaw: Bahamas (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina via GlobaLex) February 2007
- World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bahamas (Germany Bundestag)
- 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)
- Portals to the World: Bahamas (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 Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State)
- 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)
Last Updated: 12/18/2008