Read About the Constitution in Plain English
The Constitution Annotated provides a comprehensive overview of how the Constitution has been interpreted over time and is now available on this new site with upgraded search capabilities. The online Constitution Annotated includes discussions of the Supreme Court’s latest opinions. In the coming months, we will be making broader changes to further modernize the Constitution Annotated.
Browse the Constitution AnnotatedFeatured Items
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Featured Issues
- Constitutional Authority Statements
- Espinoza v. Montana and the Refusal to Provide Public Funds to Religious Schools
- Presidential Pardons: Overview and Selected Legal Issues
- Appeals Court Says First Amendment Limits Regulation of Online Political Advertising: Implications for Congress
- The CASE Act of 2019: Establishing a Small-Claims Process for Copyright Disputes
- The Emoluments Clauses and the Presidency: Background and Recent Developments
- Piracy, Old and New: Copyright, State Sovereignty, and the Queen Anne's Revenge
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U.S. Constitution at the Library of Congress
- Constitution of the United States: Primary Documents in American History
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789
- Creating the United States Constitution
- Creating the Bill of Rights
- George Washington Papers
- The Federalist Papers
- U.S. Reports Collection
- Legal Research Guides
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Constitution Annotated Resources
- Constitution of the United States
- Historical Note on Formation of the Constitution
- Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions
- Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court
- Table of Supreme Court Justices
- Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources
- Methodologies for the Tables
- About the Constitution Annotated