The Constitution
You can access high resolution images and transcripts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights through the National Archive's "Charters of Freedom" website.
Primary Sources
- GovInfoPortal to documents from the Government Publishing Office (budget, bills, hearings, Constitution, US Code, etc.). Formerly: FDsys, GPO Access
- Oyez: Supreme Court MultimediaOyez (pronounced oh-yay), a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Chicago-Kent College of Law and Justia.com, is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone.
Best Bets: Databases
- Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)Contents: Full-text local, national, and international newspaper articles and legal resources.
Need search tips? See our guides for tips on Legal Searching and News Searching. - EBSCO Research LibrarySearch across all of our EBSCO subscriptions for full-text articles and abstracts in almost every discipline.
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- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Contents: Abstracts and some full-text of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers in the social sciences.
- Policy ArchiveA digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents.
Organizations
- Bill of Rights InstituteThe Bill of Rights Institute provides resources for educating the public about founding documents
- Center for Constitutional RightsOrganization founded in 1966 that is dedicated to protecting rights stated in the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- First Amendment CenterClearinghouse for information concerning the five freedoms (speech, press, assembly, petition and religion) guaranteed by the First Amendment to our Constitution
- National Constitution CenterMuseum in Philadelphia that educates the public about the Constitution through exhibits and events.