Thomson Reuters
Find Law: Article Iii: Organizations of Court, Tenure, & Compensation
This resource covers Article III, Section 1, which focuses on the judicial branch of the United States government.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Creating the Us Constitution
A collection which uses primary sources to explore the creation of the US Constitution.
US National Archives
National Archives: Congress Creates the Bill of Rights Iib
This is the 3rd section of a PDF entitled Congress Creates the Bill of Rights. This section focuses on the articles debated in Congress that eventually formed the Bill of Rights. Background on each article is given as well as a picture...
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: Annotation 3: Article I
This resource provides the annotation of Article 1 of the Constitution and the powers held by Congress. Focuses are on the implied, enumerated, inherent, and resulting powers of Congress. At the bottom of the page footnotes are provided.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Preamble to the Constitution
This article contains the history, meaning, and words to the Preamble to the Constitution which encompassed the reasons why the thirteen original colonies separated from Great Britain to become an independent nation.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Debate About Slavery
Article outlines the issues of debate over slavery and the compromises made while writing the Constitution.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: The Butler Family
An entry on the Butler family who owned large plantations on the Sea Islands. The "patriarch" was Pierce Butler who also served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: From Confederation to Constitution
This tutorial examines the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and why they were replaced with the Constitution. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: The New Nation, 1783 1815
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website documents the United States through its struggles to become a new nation. Site includes primary source documents for the Articles of Confederation, US Constitutional Convention, and George...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Sudan, Imperialism and Mahdi's Holy War [Pdf]
Article on the Sudan region history and the Mahdi's holy war against British imperialism and Egypt. Includes questions for writing and discussion, short research project outline relating this historical event with modern conflict, and...
Yale University
Avalon Project: The Federalist Papers
With this resource, you can search by keyword for particular subjects within the Federalist Papers, or you can access by number each of the Papers. Also available are links to four related documents: The Annapolis Convention, Articles of...
Other
Tench Coxe and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 1787 1823
A scholarly article about Tench Coxe, his support for ratifying the Constitution, the roles he played in the Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison administrations, and especially his analysis and defense of the Second Amendment.
Library of Congress
Loc: The New Nation 1783 1815
The creation and growth of the new nation of the United States is the focus of this article. Being divided into time periods makes this site easy to understand.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End? [Pdf]
Article discussing 45 years of the Cold War between Russia and the U.S. Questions for discussion and small group activity.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Article 3 of the Us Constitution
Article 3 of the US Constitution establishes the Judicial Branch (the system of courts and judges), judicial powers, and the crime of treason.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Article 2 of the Us Constitution
Article 2 of the US Constitution deals with the establishment of the Executive Branch, the election of the President and Vice-President, the powers and responsibilities of the President, and the process of impeachment.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Article 1 of the Us Constitution
Presents a summary and the full text of Artice I of the US Constitution. Article 1 primarily deals with Congress explaining who may become a representative, and who may become a senator, all of the powers that Congress and the individual...
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: Article 4 of the Us Constitution
Provides a summary and full text of Article 4 of the US Constitution that summarizes the duties that individual states have to each other, as well as those the federal government has to the states.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Articles and Amendments
This resource gives a table of the Articles and Amendments of the United States Constitution.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Constitution Lives
As part of the study of the Constitution, young scholars will do research on and create a Constitutional scrapbook and multimedia presentation on the Bill of Rights. Students will use various media print resources as well as the Internet...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Constitution or Articles?
In this lesson, students will observe the political climate at the time of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and read the writings of the delegates who refused to sign the proposed Constitution, as well as those who supported it....
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: An Overview of the African American Experience
Lesson with article and questions for discussion on the experience of African-Americans beginning with the slave trade.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Constitutional Amendments and Gay Marriage
In this lesson, students examine and debate the issue of same sex marriage by studying background information, news articles, legal arguments and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They then draft an amendment of their own to...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in School? [Pdf]
Article on the consitutionality of prayer, worship or reading the Bible at school. Students analyze Supreme Court cases, answer questions for discussion and debate the protective clause of first amendment rights.