Constitution Day

Resources in the ASU Library related to United States constitutional history

The Constitution Annotated, the authoritative source for how the Supreme Court has interpreted the nation’s governing document over the years. From the Library of Congress.

Resources from TeachingAmericanHistory.org covering the Constitutional Convention, Federalists/Anti-Federalists, Ratification of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Online exhibit from the National Archives.

This annotated version of the Constitution provides the original text (left-hand column) with commentary about the meaning of the original text and how it has changed since 1789 (right-hand column).

As the Constitution is the foundation of the United States, constitutional law deals with some of the fundamental relationships within our society. This includes relationships among the states, the states and the federal government, the three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) of the federal government, and the rights of the individual in relation to both federal and state government.

In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.

The National Constitution Center is the first and only nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to the most powerful vision of freedom ever expressed: the U.S. Constitution.

Contains over 48 videos on major constitutional concepts and court cases with learning materials aligned to state standards, as well as lesson plans, online no-cost books for download, and interactive games on the origins of the Constitution.