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"Wex - LII's collaboratively built law dictionary and encyclopedia"

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US Supreme Court Cases & Opinions

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"This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case."

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This society "is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States." The site provides a history of the Court (including data on past and present justices), a description of the Court process, and a guide to researching the Court.

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Northwestern University's US Supreme Court Multimedia Database: U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries, Oral Arguments & Multimedia. From the site: The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.

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Supreme Court collection from Cornell Law; includes decisions by author and by subject.

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Click on any element in the chart to find reveal detailed information about that step in the legislative process.

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Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it’s your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 14,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.

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Archive of historical legal documents, including charters, treaties, and other agreements. From the site: "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."

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Track legislation and votes in the United States Congress with email updates and RSS feeds. Repackages THOMAS (Library of Congress Legislative resource) content in a user-friendly open-source and community project.

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Georgetown University’s Law Library has created a web site with great resources for legal research that are low cost or free .There are entries about and links to many resources, including case law, statutes and codes, legislative histories, and administrative regulations.

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Interactive Constitution lets you search the Constitution and find relevant passages and explanations. Discover how the Constitution relates to more than 300 topics, from civil rights to school prayer, including Supreme Court decisions. (National Constitution Center)

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Historians on America
looks at 11 developments that altered the course of U.S.
history: the trial of John Peter Zenger and the birth of
freedom of the press, the Constitutional Convention (1787),
George Washington's concept of a limited Presidency, the
Common School movement, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890,
the Interstate Highway System (1939-1991), the GI Bill of
Rights, the Marshall Plan, Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon
v. Wainwright, and the Immigration Act of 1965. (Department
of State)

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Open Congress - - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress. This is a free social site where you can set up an account and track specific bills, politicians, and/or issues, and recieve updates whenever there is activity on any of the items/people you are watching. You can see how your congress-people vote on issues that concern you, and you can also ‘vote’ and comment on bills, and see what other people are saying about them, too.

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Site provides biographical information on members of the US congress from 1774 to the present.

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Historic Supreme Court Decisions - By Topic: Cornell's Legal Information Institute provides this site.

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