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Overview
This presentation gives a brief description of
US Constitutional Law.
It tells you:
• what US Constitutional Law is
• how it can help you
• how to look for information in it
The presentation will take about 4 minutes.
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Oxford Constitutional Law
(OXCON) is the home of Oxford’s
constitutional law services, including
Oxford Constitutions of the World
and US Constitutional Law. Via this
platform users are able to perform a
single search across both of Oxford’s
constitutional law services, ensuring
fast, comprehensive results.
It’s easy to return to the Oxford
Constitutional Law main site or any of
the individual resources by clicking
Product Selector on the left.
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US Constitutional Law (USC)
provides a comprehensive
research resource on the law,
politics, and history of
constitutionalism in the United
States at the federal and state
levels.
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Combining extensive primary
materials with expert commentary,
the service offers researchers
unparalleled access to the
historical development of federal
and state constitutionalism.
The resource features the full text
of current and historical state
constitutions as well as the Oxford
Commentaries on the State
Constitutions of the US series,
offering article-by-article
commentaries on every State
Constitution, tracing their
historical development.
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The homepage allows users to
navigate content by Content type
and State quickly and intuitively.
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Searching across all content is
straightforward – type the search
term into the top right search box.
Searching across Jurisdiction is
also possible in the middle of the
homepage.
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Search results can be refined by
content type, jurisdiction, book titles,
author and date.
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Each result consists of the name
of the matching document, the
title in which it appears, the author
name, content type, product,
series, date of print and online
publication, and the ISBN.
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US Constitutional Law provides
users with the full text of book titles
from the Oxford Commentaries on
the State Constitutions of the US
(COTUS) series.
The table of contents in the left
column allows users to navigate the
book easily and quickly.
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The site allows users to view and
share content in several ways:
• as a pdf download,
• in a printer-friendly view,
• by saving searches and content in
My account for future visits,
• in an email,
• via social network sites.
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Search and Browse options are
available on every page, as well
as access to an Advanced
Search option for more specific
searching.
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In an Advanced search, users
can search for more than one
term at once.
Search by entering a word or
phrase in the search field. Add
new row(s) to include additional
words or phrases and refine
your search further.
You can also search by
selecting the content type you
need.
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From Oxford Law Citator, other
materials can be accessed in US
Constitutional Law, other OUP
online law resources, and certain
external resources.
Users can also access the full
text of constitutional
instruments.
Each article from US
Constitutional Law has a link to
the Oxford Law Citator in the
left panel, which provides direct
links to related jurisdictions.
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