Constitution Day and Voter Registration: Constitution Day

This site from the National Archives gives brief biographies for each of the delegates to the Continental Convention, as well as a biographical overview of all the delegates.

The full text of the US Constitution, as well as the ability to search the text, explore by topic, and search the text by Supreme Court decisions.

This website from the National Archives talks about the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

This annotated version of the Constitution provides the original text with commentary about the meaning of the original text and how it has changed since 1789. It contains legal analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution, based primarily on Supreme Court case law. This resource is especially useful when researching the constitutional implications of a specific issue or topic.

This site consists of extracts from the leading works of political theory, history, law, and constitutional argument on which the Framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced.

This website by the Library of Congress includes the records of the daily proceedings of the Congress.

This day by day summary of the Constitutional Convention shows when important decisions were made.

This lecture by a professor at Stanford University explores James Madison’s background, his ideas about democracy, and his legacy as Father of the Constitution.

The Smithsonian Institute and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services teamed up for this website, which is a great place to learn all about American History and the Constitution.

This series from PBS examines where the Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t – how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.