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Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov

---examines the Supreme Court and includes recent decisions, dockets, oral arguments, court rules, opinions, and orders and journals.

The Supreme Court Historical Society
http://www.supremecourthistory.org

---present historical information on the Supreme Court including biographies of the chief justices, landmark cases, cases about students’ and women’s rights, and oral arguments of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts.

The Supreme Court: Justices, Landmark Decisions, Timelines
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/supreme-court.html
---provides an overview of the U. S. Supreme Court, chief justices, and landmark decisions, as well as information about voting rights, elections, and the court; civil rights and affirmative action; women's rights, separation of powers; freedom of speech; crime, evidence, and the death penalty; and additional Supreme Court issues.


Supreme Court Cases


Supreme Court Cases
http://law.touro.edu/PATCH/CaseSummary.asp

Full Text of Supreme Court Cases
http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/supremecourtcases.asp

LII Supreme Court Collection - By Topic
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/topic.htm

Historic Supreme Court Decisions - By Party Name
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm

Historic Supreme Court Decisions - By Justice
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm

Pearson Prentice Hall: Supreme Court Cases
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/supreme_court.html

Milestone Cases in Supreme Court History
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101289.html


Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 1989 to the Present
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/landmarkvotes.html


Documents

NARA | The National Archives Experience
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/charters.html

---includes full-text and images of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as well as information on their making and impact.

Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention Broadsides Home Page
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html

---contains 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution including broadsides, journals, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Documents - Historic Documents
http://www.law.emory.edu/erd/docs/federalist/

---presents full-text of The Federalist, the essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison to rally support for the ratification of the Constitution.

National Park Service: A Multitude of Amendments, Alterations and Additions
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/dube/inde1.htm

---provides a historical account of the development of the founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States.

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