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Going straight to the source
Posted By katie allison granju
From Legal Times:
High Court Justices Go Digital to Access Founding-Era Documents
U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in the landmark D.C. v.
Heller gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their
case about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they used a
little-known digital resource to get there, a project whose mission is
to digitize thousands of Founding-era documents that shed light on the
original meaning of the Constitution.The Constitutional Sources Project, which launched publicly last
September, has digitized and made freely available online more than
11,000 historical documents relating to the Constitution and the
amendments. Among them are at least 20 documents cited by majority and
dissenting opinions in Heller, says the project’s co-founder and
executive director Lorianne Updike.“We were very pleased to be a resource for the highest court in the
land,” Updike says.
Jul 25th, 2008
