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Reading of the United States Constitution of 1787. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the national frame and constrains the powers of the ...
- Amendments
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United...
- Article Four of The United States Constitution
Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the...
- Article One of The United States Constitution
Article One of the Constitution of the United States...
- Article Three of The United States Constitution
Article III authorizes one Supreme Court, but does not set...
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- Article Two of The United States Constitution
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the...
- Constitutional Convention (United States)
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia...
- Article Seven of The United States Constitution
Dates the 13 states ratified the Constitution. Article Seven...
- UK Constitutional Law
The United Kingdom constitutional law concerns the...
- Preamble to The United States Constitution
The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning...
- Amendments
The Supreme Court Judicial review. Early in its history, in Marbury v.Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) and Fletcher v.Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810), the Supreme Court of the United States declared that the judicial power granted to it by Article III of the United States Constitution included the power of judicial review, to consider challenges to the constitutionality of a State or Federal law.
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Title 17, United States Code, Section 108 places limitations on exclusive copyrights for the purposes of certain limited reproduction by a public library or an archive. Title 17, United States Code, Section 107 also places statutory limits on copyright which are commonly referred to as the fair use exception.
The law of the United States comprises many levels [1] of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties. The Constitution sets out the boundaries of federal law, which consists of ...
The United States Constitution is the highest law of the United States of America. It was signed on September 17, 1787 by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later, it was put into effect, or ratified, by representatives of the people of the first 13 states. [1] When nine of the states ratified the document, they ...
Public law. Public law is the part of law that governs relations and affairs between legal persons and a government, [1] between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, [2] as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society. Public law comprises constitutional law ...
All fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia also have freedom of information laws that govern the public's access to government records at state and local levels. These laws go by many different names including Sunshine Laws, Public Records Laws, Open Records Laws, etc. Additionally, Open Meeting Laws govern the public's access to ...
