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The Constitution of the United States

The Constitution available from the National Archives site. Aside from the text, the site features high resoltion images of the original document. These are 300 dpi images that will print up to 24" by 29" high. Each graphic of the pages of the Constitution is between 8 and 10 megabytes. The download page also features similar graphics files for the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and subsequent Amendments.
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Constitutional Law: An Overview

Provided by the Cornell Legal Information Institute. The page features links to other federal constitutional materials, state constitutions, and internation materials relevant to Constitutional law.
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The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers via the University of Oklahoma Law Center. They are organized by number. The site does not feature word search. Another set of the Federalist Papers is available via Thomas and the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. A third set is available at Yale University's Avalon Project Web site. Find other sites hosting copies of the Federalist Papers by searching for them in any search engine.
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The Anti-Federalist Papers

A collection of papers that opposed ratification of the Constitution that was contemporary to the Federalist Papers from the Constutitution Society. The site features the Federalist Papers and other background information on the creation of the Constitution. Similar to the Federalist Papers, other sites containing collections of the anti-federalist papers can be located by searching that term in a search engine.
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution

Edited by John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan, available via the Wisconsin Historical Society. Not full text, but rather descriptions and a form to order the volumes from the UW Press. The set is an enclopedic compilation of primary documents collected from a variety of sources and heavily annotated.
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Constitutional Law Resources

Significant legal resources on U.S. Constitutional law as compiled by the Law Firm of Chan Robles & Associates which is headquartered in Manila in the Phillipines. The firm's Virtual Law Library has an exceptional amount of links to U.S., international, and Phillipine law resources. It is worth exploring for topics beyond Constuitutional law.
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Human and Constitutional Rights

Resources and links via the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia University.
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Constitutional Law Links

An extensive set of Constitutional law links from lawresearch.com. The site includes primary documents, links to International Constitutional law, and state constitutional law
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