Politics

These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.

Transcription of the constitution and brief history of its ratification

From The National Archives

Full text of the documents from The Library of Congress

Full text from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Read by David Currie of the University of Chicago Law School

Searchable database for constitutional documents from around the world. Also includes translations of the US constitution into several languages.

The world's constitutions to read, search, and compare