Constitutional Law
U.S. Constitution
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation
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"Written in 'plain English,' The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, better known as the Constitution Annotated, has served as Congress’s Constitution of record for over one hundred years. A Senate document, the Constitution Annotated is prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and provides objective, authoritative, timely, and non-partisan explanations of every provision of the Constitution based on comprehensive analyses of Supreme Court decisions." For a PDF version, visit the Constitution Annotated on the U.S. Government Publishing Office's GovInfo.gov site.
The Constitution of the United States is published at the beginning of all versions of the United States Code, before Title 1 (see the Organic Laws of the United States in the U.S.C.):
- United States Code (U.S.C.)
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Official Code of federal laws, organized by subject matter. Revised every six years and updated between editions with annual cumulative supplements. - United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.)
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West's unofficial, annotated version of the United States Code. More current than the official version and includes many research features. - United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.)
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Lexis's unofficial, annotated version of the United States Code. More current than the official version and includes many research features.
State Constitutions
Each state's constitution is published in all versions of the state's code. The state statutory codes the library maintains in print are located on the 2nd floor of the Law Library.
- State Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline)
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Contains current and historical constitutions for all fifty states, pre-statehood primary material, and more than 1,000 books and 770,000 pages of related works to each state’s constitutional history.
National Archives
The National Archives Museum is the permanent home of the Constitution of the United States, in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.