The Constitution? There’s a New App for That
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Talk about a living Constitution — here’s one the framers never saw coming. Today, the U.S. government is marking Constitution Day by launching an official annotated Constitution app that will provide legal analysis and interpretation directly on your iPhone or iPad. (Sorry Android folks, that one is still in development.)
The app is a companion to a new Web resource, Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. Both the app and the website were developed by the Library of Congress, together with the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the Government Printing Office.
The launch of these new resources also coincides with the 100th anniversary edition of the nearly 3,000-page print treatise of the same name, originally published in 1913 and updated every 10 years since. Unlike the print volume, these new resources will be updated multiple times a year as new court decisions are issued. The analysis is prepared by attorneys at the Congressional Research Service in the Library of Congress. The version launched today is current through June 26.
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