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LessigWiki: Article V Convention - a discussion of rules for amending the Constitution

National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA: museum
- "Interactive" Constitution": seems to be a bit of a misnomer, as the only interactivity is selecting which part of the constitution you want explained, but is useful in that it does have capsule summaries of the generally accepted meaning of each part of the Constitution as well as some of the significant concepts to which it refers.

1988-09-12 Washington Talk: Briefing; The First Constitution: "In the mid-16th century, five northeastern Indian tribes - Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida and Cayugaa - formed the Iroquois Confederacy, joined later by the Tuscarora tribe. They adopted a constitution, reflecting concepts of checks and balances and separation of powers that impressed such later Americans as Washington, Franklin and other Founding Fathers." See also Great Law of Peace [W], full text (English)

2011-05-13 [L..T] Court denies right to resist illegal cop entry into home “Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. .. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.”

2007-05-31 [Talk|Index] Repudiation, Not Impeachment § [2](analysis/discussion): rather than solving Bush's elevation of presidential power by impeaching him, we need to solve the broader problem of widespread claims (and belief) that the Constitution allows this sort of thing. Bush himself is just one example of a much more widespread problem.
2003-05 [Talk|Index] Should the DMCA Prevail: Analysis of the Constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act § “This paper tries to address the issue of whether the DMCA will withstand the critique toward it from the technology-oriented community, some legal counselors, as well as the general public in the light of constitutional scrutiny.”