The Constitution Society is a nonprofit educational organization headquartered in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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, U.S.

United States

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, founded in 1994 by Jon Roland, a self-employed computer and management consultant. The society publishes online a large selection of major works on constitutional history, law and government.

Web site

The society’s web site features digital library

Digital library

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 resources including the online Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics — complete, annotated, and cross-linked copies of the most of the major works written or read by the American Founders

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, or by persons whose writings can enable one to understand their writings. As of April 2011, it had an Alexa

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 Traffic Rank of 78,617, with 2943 links in. It also has documents from other countries.

Publications

The Constitution Society sponsors the writing and publication of news and law review and history articles, including:

• "Public Safety or Bills of Attainder?", by Jon Roland.
• "Hurst's Law of Treason", by Jon Roland.
• "Mansfieldism Reconsidered", by Jon Roland.

See also

• Federalist Society
  Federalist Society
  The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, is an organization of conservatives seeking reform of the current American legal system in accordance with a textualist and/or originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution...
  
  
• Cato Institute
  Cato Institute
  The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...
  
  
• Liberty Fund
  Liberty Fund
  Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It is dedicated to the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals...
  
  
• Institute for Justice
  Institute for Justice
  The Institute for Justice is a 501 non-profit libertarian public interest law firm in the United States. Its mission is to provide pro bono legal advice and representation, litigating strategically to pursue its goal of a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and...
  
  
• Independent Institute
  Independent Institute
  The Independent Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Oakland, California. Founded in 1986 byDavid J. Theroux , the Institute sponsors studies of major political, social, economic, legal, environmental and foreign policy issues. It has more than 140 research fellows. The Institute was...
  
  
• Independence Institute
  Independence Institute
  The Independence Institute is a conservative think tank based in Golden, Colorado. Founded in 1985, the Institute " expertise education, the environment, transportation, personal freedom, government reform, local government, and criminal justice."- Current Staff :As of June 2010, the Independence...
  
  

External links

• Constitution Society (CS) official website.
• Constitution primary blog.