Resources for Constitutional History

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Web Sources

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• A Century of Lawmaking ... part of the American Memory Project by the Library of Congress. This site includes material from the first 100 years of Congressional documents and debates.
• The Constitution of the United States - NARA Exhibit Hall ... provides a link to the text of the Constitution as well as biographies of the the 39signers. Includes digital images of the Constitution.
• Documents of U.S. Democracy and other sections on Congressional and Judicial information.
• FindLaw ... one of the leading sites for legal information. FindLaw's section on the Constitution not only contains text of the document but legal annotations as well.
• GPOAccess ... official website of the Government Printing Office and Superintendent of Documents. Contains links to the majority of government publications and websites. Note the section on Core
• Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court Collection ... sometimes referred to as Supreme Court decisions at Cornell Law School. This site contains decisions since 1990 as well as over 600 historic decisions of the court.
• Legal Research Center, Pritzker: Northwestern University.
• Oyez Project ... produced by Northwestern University, this site contains audio opinion announcements. Very brief abstracts for most cases. Each entry also includes the "question presented" by the case. A fun link is "On this Date in US Supreme Court History"
• Supreme Court of the United States ... official website of the Court. Contains information about the Court, it's docket and cases since 1990.
• Thomas - Historical Documents - "Charters of Freedom" ... links to the primary documents of early American constitutional history including The Declaration of Independence, the U. S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The site also includes links to supporting documents such as The Federalist Papers.

Databases

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications ... available through FirstSearch or GPOAccess: Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

• Code of Federal Regulations                   
  R 348.7325 C669
  ... codification of the rules of federal agencies

• Constitution of the United States of America                                                         
  R 342 U58c
  ... annotated   

• United States Code                                 
  R 348.7323 U58
  ... codification of the laws of Congress

• United States Reports                            
  GOV JU 6.8:
  ... collections of Supreme Court Decisions

• United States Statutes-at-Large               
  GOV AE 2.111:
  ... compilation of the public laws of the United States                     

PRINT REFERENCE WORKS

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
  R 342.73 E56

• The Founders Constitution
  R 342.73029 F711

• The Complete Bill of Rights
  R 342.73085 C737

• A Reference Guide to the United States Supreme Court
  R 347.7326 R332

• The Supreme Court in Conference
  R 347.73260264 S959

• Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court
  R 347.732603 O98

• Supreme Court Decisions: An Index to Their Locations
  R 348.73 A543u

Robert Kaehr, Director of Library Services
RichLyn Library
Huntington University
Huntington, In (260) 359 4063
Revised: Feb. 02, 2008