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| | United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The United States is a common law country, and courts follow the precedents established in prior cases. | | | The United States Constitution was partly based on ideas from the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom, such as Article 39 from the Magna Carta of 1215 which states that: | | | Nevertheless, the balance of state and federal power has remained a battle in the Supreme Court; for example, a recent case dealt with whether a state could be sued by an employee under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (see Federalist Society and Federalism). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: The Constitution of the USA |
| | The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain 1. | | | A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime. | | | The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/const.htm
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| | 82.03.03: The United States Constitution |
| | A constitutional convention is a sort of “superlegislature;” in that, the outcome it generates cannot be subject to the whim and fancy of the “normal” legislative body. | | | The small states advocated equal representation, while the large states thought it to be preposterous that a state of 50,000 inhabitants could exercise the same equal voice as a state of one million. | | | One of the main objections to the Constitution was the absence of a section which specifically enumerated the liberties of individuals. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.03.x.html
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| | United States Constitution: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) |
| | The members of the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | | | The new United States of America adopted the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens on December 15, 1791. | | | During the Constitutional Convention, the Committee of Style was appointed "to revise the style of, and arrange, the articles which have been agreed to by the House." On September 12, 1787, the Convention ordered copies printed and distributed to the delegates. |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html
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| | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: United States Constitution |
| | Constitution of the United States, Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, via GPO Access) 2002 edition (S.Doc. | | | Constitution of the United States of America as Amended: Unratified Amendments, Analytical Index (U.S. House of Representatives, via GPO Access) June 20, 2003; H.Doc. | | | Documents of the Confederate States of America (1861) (The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy) Includes the Constitution of Confederate States of America, and other Confederate legal documents. |
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http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usconst.html
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| | ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Constitution of the United States |
| | ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Constitution of the United States | | | Section 4: "The validity of the public debt of the United States..." | | | We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. |
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http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
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| | NARA The National Archives Experience |
| | Amendments 1-10 constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights. | | | The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. | | | Among the chief points at issue were how much power to allow the central government, how many representatives in Congress to allow each state, and how these representatives should be elected--directly by the people or by the state legislators. |
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http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
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| | FindLaw: Cases and Codes: U.S. Constitution |
| | Search a database of over 1,000,000 lawyer profiles to find the lawyer with the experience you need. | | | Original Senate Document Available in text and acrobat (.pdf) format from the US Government Printing Office Web Site. | | | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
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http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution
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| | LII: Constitution |
| | The Constitution of the United States of America | | | [The full Constitution, in both hypertext and word-processor formats, can be purchased and downloaded for individual local use from the LII. | | | Best of the Web, Document Design, '94 Nominee |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html
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