Know Your Constitution!

A competition to mark Constitution Day presented by the History, Economics, and Political Science Departments and the Public Policy Research Institute of King's College.

Monday, 17 September 2007 at 3:30 p.m. in the Snyder Room, Sheehy-Farmer Building.

For more information or to register your team contact Prof. Pavlac (ext. 5748; bapavlac@kings.edu, Hafey-Marian 307) before Monday, 17 September at noon.

TENTATIVE RULES are here.

Questions will be according to the following categories:  

To learn what you can, here are some links to material on the Constitution:  

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BASIC DOCUMENTS
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html.

NARA - U. S. National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/.

NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER - Museum site with interpretive information, including an interactive Constitution.
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/.

THE CONSTITUTION ONLINE - Rather general information; adequate 
http://www.usconstitution.net/.

CONSTITUTIONFACTS.COM - Info on the Constitution, Declaration, Articles of Confederation, Founding Fathers and Supreme Court, with a quiz!
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/index.htm.

ANNOTATED COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION - An excellent structure which provides appropriate and
interesting "sidebar" commentaries as well as hyperlinks which "update" the Constitution.
 http://www.leftjustified.org/leftjust/lib/sc/ht/const/index.html.

THE FOUNDERS' CONSTITUTION - University of Chicago excellent "source of primary sources"; examines background as well as each provision of the Constitution
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: A DOCUMENTARY RECORD (AVALON PROJECT) - Outstanding features pre-1787, the Convention, the Ratification debates
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm;  (includes papers of James Madison, http://www.yale.edu./lawweb/avalon/presiden/madispap.htm).

ANTI-FEDERALIST PAPERS - Documents located on the University of Groningen Master Site 
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/federalist/antixx.htm.

MADISON - GODFATHER OF THE CONSTITUTION - A provocative commentary on Madison's actual role
in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/madison.html.

THE OYEZ PROJECT (NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) - Comprehensive and detailed information on Supreme Court decisions from 1789 to present
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage.

Annenberg Companion Site to Democracy in America video course
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/democracyinamerica/.

JUSTICE LEARNING: civic education in the real world
http://www.justicelearning.org/.

"WHO WROTE THE CONSTITUTION?" (DIGITAL HISTORY) - Useful resources on the delegates.    
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/constitution/constitution_menu.cfm.

INS Citizenship Questions
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blinstst.htm#16, http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/100q.pdf, www.uscis.gov/natzpilot

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