United States Constitution

View images of original U.S. Constitutional and other founding U.S. documents. Also includes biographies of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

From Yale's Avalon Project, a collection of primary documents that influenced the U.S. Constitution, also with the text of the Constitution, the ratifying documents, and the Federalist Papers.

Includes the original text of the Constitution and annotated versions from 1992, 2002, 2012-14, and 2016, with biannual supplements.

"The Constitution Project seeks consensus solutions to difficult legal and constitutional issues through constructive dialogue across ideological and partisan lines, and through scholarship, activism, and public education efforts."

In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.

As the Constitution is the foundation of the United States, constitutional law deals with some of the fundamental relationships within our society. This includes relationships among the states, the states and the federal government, the three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) of the federal government, and the rights of the individual in relation to both federal and state government.