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Subject: Re: Supreme Court
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Later all, Mel
--- "Judith K. Graves" <jgrav@loc.gov> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Just a note on what's happening a couple of blocks
> from the Library:
>
> I walked by the Supreme Court on my way from Union
> Station to the Madison
> Building a little before 8 am. There are about 6
> large white media vans,
> with rooftop satellite dishes, all ready to beam
> their reports. A colleage
> said there were about a hundred photographers with
> their tripods on the
> sidewalk, ready to go. Everything is peaceful.
>
> I walked closer to the Capitol and steered clear of
> the crowd, but so had
> some other newsgroups. Three different groups
> consisting of camera
> operators and reporters had set up their filming
> area on the Capitol
> grounds - poised and ready to broadcast. Democracy
> at work!
>
> You can see/hear this on the web at
> http://www.cspan.org.
>
> I prepared the URLs below for a friend, but y'all
> might have already found
> these references on the Electoral College:
>
> Presidential Elections and the Electoral College:
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwec.html
>
> A Century of Lawmaking:
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
>
> Go to the search page, select Continental Congress,
> and search on
> 'electors' to get discussion in the Federal
> Convention of 1787. This is
> raw debate converage, ie, minutes of debates, not
> the formal language of
> the finished document.
>
> First draft of the Constitution from another
> collection, Documents of the
> Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention:
>
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(bdsdc
> c++c01a1))
> (click on page image to get a .tiff image of the
> actual broadside.)
>
> Go here for 8 documents that show the progression in
> revision:
>
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:we-the-people
>
> The constitution as ratified:
>
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(bdsdc
> c++c08-1))
>
> Come here on THOMAS, the congressional web site, to
> search all historical
> documents, including the Constitution and the
> Federalist Papers.
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html
>
> Enjoy,
> Judy
>
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> Judith K. Graves
> Educational Services
> National Digital Library Program
> Library of Congress
> 101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
> Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
> jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
> http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
=====
Mel Sanchez
Santa Ana High School
520 W. Walnut
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-567-4900
fax 714-567-4952
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