The complete text of the Constitution can be read here. Each section is accompanied by an explanation of what it means in lay language.

Read the full text of the speech by Senator Norris explaining the reasons some of the population opposed declaring war on Germany and entering WWI.

Although lengthy (33 pages), this statement by General Richard B. Myers to the United States Senate provides a clear, concise analysis of the War in Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom from the perspective of one of the Bush...

Text of the declaration of war which brought the United States into the War of 1812.

The McCarran Act was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the words of the act "to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist...

The Progressive Republican from Nebraska, Senator George William Norris (1861-1944) was among the handful of eminent politicians of the day to oppose US entry into the Great War. In this speech to the Senate, he made his reasons clear....

CNN provides a full transcript of former top Weapons Inspector David Kay's opening comments in his Senate Hearing concerning the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. (January 28, 2004)

Read this speech given by Senator David Bennet Hill of New York at the Democratic Convention in 1896. A key issue in that convention was whether the United States should go back on the gold standard. This speech clearly shows that Hill...

The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.

Site gives the documents of the hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate Seventieth Congress on The General Pact for the Renunciation of War signed at Paris as well as the text of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Congressional committee transcripts are compiled into the Congressional Reports section of the Government Printing office website. Most of the information included within the Congressional Reports include the gathering of expert...

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards including Daniel Webster, Speech to the United States Senate, March 7, 1850.

Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...