[Web4lib] Where on the Web is the U.S. Constitution?

[Charles Irwin]

Hi Richard,

I typed "United States Constitution text" into the Google box and came 
up with a whole bunch of links, the first one of which was this;
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/text.html

Hope this helps.

Charlie Irwin
Unemployed librarian, Austin TX


Richard Wiggins wrote:
> I wanted to look up something in the Constitution (the actual powers
> granted to the vice president, for what that's worth) so I did a
> Google search.  A Sponsored Link came up to this site at the Library
> of Congress:
>
> http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/Pages/SlObjectList.aspx
>
> It's entitled "Creating the United States."  It's an interactive
> exhibition mounted by LOC.  It requires Microsoft Silverlight to view.
> (There are some HTML links, no doubt for ADA compliance.)  It's pretty
> cool stuff, giving a historical perspective -- e.g. how we got from
> Confederation to United States.
>
> But there is a problem.  The home page doesn't seem to have a link to
> the text of the U.S. Constitution.  You may not be able to reproduce
> what I saw, as the ad doesn't always come up, but it seems to me that
> if LOC is going to put themselves at the top of the SERP when you
> search for "U.S. Constitution" they should provide prominently the
> actual text of the document.
>
> If you'll try this search you will find many different presentations,
> both within and without the Federal government.  Cornell Law's
> presentation, which I think may date way back to early 90s, tops both
> Google and Bing's hit lists.  It's interesting that no Federal site is
> in the top 5.  We've got www.usconstitution.net and
> www.constitution.org and Findlaw.  When we get to Federal sites, we've
> got the US House, the US Senate, the Archives,  LOC, GPO ....
>
> It is interesting to me that Cornell Law is "the" source that's
> apparently most linked to, not one from the government itself.  But no
> doubt the fact that there are so many competing versions are out
> there, and Cornell garnered links early, combine to make that the
> case.  Separation of powers, I guess.
>
> /rich
>
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