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The five rulebooks

Marginalia pulls from these federal sources and weaves them together. Tap any one to see which everyday topics it shows up in.

IRM

Internal Revenue Manual

How the IRS actually does its job, in their own words.

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TFM

Treasury Financial Manual

Rules for how federal money gets spent, tracked, and reported.

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Sources we want on the shelf next.

Marginalia is built one rulebook at a time. Here's what's queued — these aren't live yet, but the room is reserved.

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State constitutions & codes

All 50 state constitutions plus the full statutory code of every state — searchable next to the federal sources you already have.

coming soon

Federal caselaw

Supreme Court, circuit, and district opinions wired into the statutes and regulations they interpret.

coming soon

Federal Register, demystified

Daily proposed and final rules, threaded into the CFR sections they touch — so you can see what's about to change before it does.

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Local rules & municipal codes

The county and city ordinances that actually govern day-to-day life — landlord-tenant, parking, zoning, noise — pulled into the same index.

on the wishlist

Agency guidance & opinion letters

The unofficial-but-binding stuff: DOL opinion letters, IRS revenue rulings, FTC guidance — usually buried, finally indexed.

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