The Constitution
The Constitution of the United States; another copy; another copy; another copy.
The Constitution Society has put online a "documentary history" of the Bill of Rights, containing some of the sources on which they were based, records of the different state proposals, and the drafts considered by Congress as it deliberated on the final version.
The Federal Courts
Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court:
- From 1893-present; courtesy of FindLaw (scroll down for search boxes)
- From 1990-present, with selected historical decisions; indexed by courtesy of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell.
- Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW Resource.
- Contains recordings of many oral arguments before the Supreme Court plus links to the published decisions; usefully indexed by topic, including Freedom of Speech; courtesy of Northwestern Prof. Jerry Goldman.
Cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court:
Decisions of lower federal courts can be located through The Federal Courts Finder. The Northwestern community can also use Lexis-Nexis' Academic Universe for legal research.
Laws and Regulations
- Federal Law
- Available for the Northwestern commuity at Lexis-Nexis' Congressional Universe.
- Code of Federal Regulations.
- A searchable database of the regulations issued by federal executive departments, from GPO Gate at the University of California.
- The Federal Communications Commission homepage.
- Including many policies and administrative decisions.
Other Legal Research Tools
- Hieros Gamos-Guide to Constitutional Law.
- Check here if you're interested in other people's constitutions.
- American Law Sources On-Line
- If you can't find what you're looking for elsewhere, check here.
- The 'Lectric Law Library.
- Includes a dictionary of legal terms, among other oddities.
- Findlaw.
- An extensive collection of links to legal materials online and a search capacity for online law journals.
- Yahoo, WWW Virtual Library, and Washlaw Web.
- More sets of links to legal resources.
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