Research Guides : First Amendment: Databases and Searches

The Making of Modern Law

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to page-image (pdf) versions of the complete contents of more than 22,000 American and British legal treatises from 1800 to 1926.
Making Of Modern Law: Primary Sources I 1620-1923 This link opens in a new window
This archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II 1763-1970 This link opens in a new window
This collection includes PDFs of primary sources consisting of United States state and territorial codes, municipal codes, and constitutional convention and compilations.
Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records & Briefs 1832-1978 This link opens in a new window
This includes a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion.

Legislative History and More

FDsys
GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Lexis - Legislative Histories
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Library of Congress - Federal Legislative History
Includes resources to consult when researching the legislative history of a federal law. Materials such as bills, committee hearings, committee reports, congressional debates, and other documents are covered.
Proquest Legislative Insight
Includes full-text publication types associated with a legislative history: Public Law text, all versions of enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, and committee hearings, reports, and documents.
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library - Heinonline
There are 2 primary sources of content in HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Legislative History Library. The first is the “Sources of Compiled Legislative History database” The other is a collection of more than 400 full-text compiled legislative histories.
WestlawNext Legislative History
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U.S. Law Week
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United States Law Week is an authoritative way to keep up with the most significant cases and key legal developments across the country and across all areas of the law.

Search Law Journal Library

Heinonline is always a good source for law related journal articles.

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OneSearch Dropdown (EBSCO)

What is OneSearch?
OneSearch is a discovery tool that searches across the majority of our books, journals, articles, and more. It can also be used to search for material outside of our collections! It’s a great starting point for your research, and can be used to drill down to very specific resources.

Congressional Information Service

CIS Annual - Legislative Histories of U.S. Public Laws
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In the Research Center at KF49.C63.
Includes Congressional publications such as, reports, prints, hearings and documents that are related to federal legislation that's been enacted.