The Portable Constitution

The Portable Constitution is a collection documents related to the study of the US Constitution: its history, its development and its current relevance. Its core is the Constitution itself but includes both primary and other sources that are integral to the understanding of the foundations of our government. It integrates these documents by linking them together into a ready to use reference source for classes, legal researce or just readings in history. It makes them available on the most used electronic devices (the kindle, the iPad, the Nook and the Sony eReader) as well as a subscription service on the web.

Together the The American Archive contains over 50 megabytes of text and is far to big to fit completely on the current generation of eBook readers. Our technology allows us to mitigated these limitations by linking only those parts of the referenced documents that are directly referenced by the 'root' document! The full library can be accessed by our subscription service. (Everything in the The American Archive can also be accessed by our web service)

The US Constitution
An electronic version of
The US constitution and its Amendments
The Declaration of Independance
including
An index
A Summary of each srticle and amendment

The Annotated Constitution
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

In early 1911 Speculum Mundi Press proposed making an eBook of this document, because the CRS at this time did not publish and of its reports on the web and SMP thought that his was a really important document. This program failed for two main reasons: it was a massive undertaking (2500 pages plus 4000 Supreme Court Cases), it was too big for SMP; also, the CRS only updated it every several years and SMP was told by focus groups of lawyers, that, althought this material was of immense interest, they needed current Supreme Court rulings - a two year lag time made the content too stale for everyday litigation. So SMP abandoned this project!!!

The good news is that it can now be found online at ... and IBUKI (SMPs parent company) has produced a guide foe its use.
including
   the full constitution and all amendments
   text of the CRS annotated constitution
       the 2002 edition integrated with 2004 2006 2008 supplements
       with links to the supreme court cases mentioned
   for each supreme court case
       links to supreme court cases that refers this case
       links to the supreme court cases they reference

The original is over 2500 pages long without the text of the more than 4000 supreme court case referenced, As a result we have divided the text into 34 parts, one for each article of the constitution and one for each amendment. These differ wildly in size but until we actually construct the volumes we will mot be able to verify the size of each. Another possibility is to link directly to web pages. On the Kindle this equires wireline to be turned on and that the web pages be formated for voewing on the kindle browser. Hyper-links back to the main text would not be particuloarly user friendly.