Thought You Should Know: Library

The Founders' Constitution
The Columbia Law Review described it as,
"The Oxford English Dictionary of American constitutional history."
Published in 1986 in five huge volumes, it is now available online.
Discover the legal philosophy, history, and constitutional argument that informed the
thought and debates of the Framers. Awesome!

Vindicating the Founders
Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America
Thomas G. West
Contrary to modernist charges of hypocrisy, the American founders established
a "new order for the ages", a nation founded on a series of principles that,
for the first time in human history, sent slavery down the course of ultimate extinction
and allowed for the universal right to vote.

The Liberty File Collection
An excellent collection of seminal thought regarding government.
Easy to use and comes complete with occasional good humor. Recommended.

National Constitution Center
The NCC was established by Congress through the
Constitution Heritage Act of 1988,
as an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization.
This easy to navigate site has a wealth of information.

Awesome Stories is a gathering place of primary-source information.
Its purpose – since the site was first launched in 1999 – is to help educators and individuals
find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities,
museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. Recommended

	Current U.S. Documents The U.S. Code — Searchable Code of Federal Regulations Federal Statistics (Fedstats) FedStats is a gateway to the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Full search capabilities on over 100 U.S. Agencies.

	Economic and Monetary Data U.S. Tax Code On-Line U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports and Congressional Testimony Consumer Information Center This service is provided by the Consumer Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration.

	History The American Colonist's Library Primary source documents pertaining to Early American History (500 B.C. - 1800 A.D.) Magna Carta (1215) The Great Charter Archiving Early America Large breadth of material. Includes actual newspapers from the Revolutionary period. recommended Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Library of Congress Edition The Articles of Confederation (1781) The Federalist Papers (with search) The Anti-Federalist Papers The arguments against ratification of the Constitution appeared in various forms, by various authors, most of whom used a pseudonym. Collectively, these writings have become known as the Anti-Federalist Papers. The Declaration of Independence also: plain text version A User's Guide to the Declaration of Independence And a whole lot more - recommended The Original Twelve Articles of the Bill of Rights Articles 3-12 were finally adopted and renamed amendments. The U. S. Constitution A faithful electronic reproduction suitable for printing also: plain text version 1878 Posse Comitatus Act The Law – Frederick Bastiat (1850) Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville The purpose of the Museum of Communism is to do for Communism what the Holocaust Memorial Museum does for Nazism: namely, to educate the public about mass murder, widespread slave labor, and other human rights violations committed by Communist regimes. Manifesto of the Communist Party The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Current Communist Goals (1963) As entered in the Congressional Record – Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 Cycles in US History Can we remember the future? Or are we doomed to go on reinventing the past?

	Science and Environment Greenhouse Warming: Fact, Hypothesis or Myth?

	General Reference & Research Aids A wealth of useful links

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