Judiciary
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School
The Avalon Project maintains a wide variety of important U.S. government documents. Search within Document Collection categories or browse by century. Here's a quick list of significant revolutionary era legal documents: - The Federalist
- The Articles of Confederation
- The Constitution
- A Documentary Record of the Constitution
- Federal Judicial Center
A research and education agency for the federal courts, this site holds judicial documents since the late 1700s. Important historical cases are featured as well as interactive functions to take users inside the federal courts system. - FedWorld.gov - Supreme Court Cases, 1937-1975
Use the search index to locate full-text decisions of Supreme Court cases from 1937 to 1975. - Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Maintained by Fordham University, this website contains a wealth of primary resources from medieval history through the present. Read major U.S. Supreme Court cases from the late nineteenth century.
The Sourcebook also holds a section on the 20th century expansion of legal rights, including balance of power, free speech, and racial equality. - New Deal Network
The Network holds two primary resource components: the Photo Gallery and the Documents Library. The library contains an eclectic variety of online speeches, advertisements, letters, articles, and administrative documents. - Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
This website maintains a current docket for the U.S. Supreme Court, historical records, justices' profiles, and a virtual tour of the court. - Famous Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court
This website, maintained by Professor Douglas O. Linder at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) Law School, holds numerous cases studies concerning America's most famous cases. Each case contains not only the Court's opinion, briefs, but also numerous other contemporary primary sources. Case studies include:
