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Provides indexing and full text of the Congressional Record (floor debates), committee hearings, US Serial Set, CRS Reports, legislative histories and more. Coverage: 1789-present.

Legislative histories, including complete text of enacted laws and the full text of associated congressional documents (Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, etc.). Coverage: 1929-2012.

Full text of a wide variety of presidential documents including speeches, letters, radio addresses, press releases and more.

Often the best place to get primary source material from the US Government Agencies is from their web sites.

Hein Online includes many primary source databases including Foreign Relations of the US, Federal Register, Supreme Court documents and more.

Contains the full text of over 300 academic legal periodicals. Coverage begins at the earliest issue for each journal.

Abstracts and full-text of most political science journals.

America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.

Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada.

List of amendments with lengthy information in the annotations of definitions, caselaw, background and other resources on the particular issue.

Good basic information on the process of amending the constitution.

Another great page with annotations that provide additional information.

A wonderful multimedia presentation of the constitution and the amendments. Links to additional primary sources and background information.

Online version of the book!