Constitution:

• Constitution of the United States
  • Constitution of the United States (Cornell law site; includes hyperlinks to amendments)
  • Constitution of the United States (National Archives and Records Administration's historical document)
  • Constitution of the United States (Library of Commerce site; unamended)
    • Bill of Rights
    • Amendments XI - XXVII
• Reference material
  • U.S. Constitution - Analysis (Congressional Research Service)
  • University of Chicago's "The Founders' Constitution" - incredible
  • Articles of Confederation
    • Yale Law School's Avalon Project
    • USConstitution.net
      • Summarized
      • Comparing the Articles and the Constitution
  • U.S. Historical Documents: Pre-colonial to present
  • Declaration of Independence (read by NPR newspeople and commentators; an annual 4th of July event on Morning Edition) (historical material)
  • Farrand's Records of the 1787 Constitutional Convention
  • James Madison's Notes on The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
  • Magna Carta (photo)  ("Magna Carta and Its American Legacy")

Judicial:

• Supreme Court of the United States
  • Official website
    • slip opinions
    • argument transcripts
    • on-line merits briefs (ABA site)
  • SCOTUS - excellent blawg from Goldstein & Howe, P.C.
  • How Appealing - another good blawg, this one from Howard J. Bashman
  • Case lists, descriptions, some briefs, and links for the current docket
    • Northwestern's current docket review (great place to start)
    • FindLaw's Subject Index to the Current Term 
  • Supreme Court Rules, PDF version 
    • FindLaw: Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Cornell's Supreme Court site  
  • Northwestern's Oyez Project [S. Ct.]  
    • On the Docket (case list for current term, oral argument calendar, links to briefs and transcripts of oral arguments)
    • Pending cases (argued but not decided)
    • Featured audio
    • Creative Commons and audio (more MP3s)
    • Oral argument list for 2003-2003 (docket no., case name, oral argument date, opinion, lower court, issues)
  • FindLaw's Supreme Court Center - excellent source for briefs, orders, etc.
  • Jurist's Supreme Court page  
  • Washington Post's Supreme Court coverage   
• Judgeships and Clerkships
  • Senate Judiciary Committee's status of all nominations - from time to time this is a useful site, but it is currently (July 2003) pretty useless
    • Supreme Court - page removed by Judiciary Committee
    • Court of Appeals - page removed by Judiciary Committee
    • District Court - page removed by Judiciary Committee
  • Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: Vacancies, appointments, etc.
  • White House nominations
  • Federal Law Clerk Information System
• For additional links to legal sources, lower federal courts, state courts, etc., go to my law links page.

Law & Culture:  

• Constitutional Golf | Constitutional Trivia | Supreme Court Fantasy League | Oyez Baseball (click on each Justice's name and then on "Baseball") | Presidential Baseball

• Doug Linder's Constitutional Conflicts web page | Dred Scott Digital Archive | Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Law Library of Congress) - incredible resource | The Establishment "Claus": A Selective Guide to the Supreme Court's Christmas Cases | Famous Trials

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Last updated: 10 January 2004