How should we think about the relationship between the US Constitution and the law of nations?
The Constitution Online
The Heritage Foundation has released ConstitutionOnline.com for public consumption and use. It’s a very well-done clause-by-clause commentary on the Constitution, along with a few brief but informative background essays and teaching materials. The site is commendably spin-free (unless you count a tempered, openly declared commitment to originalist methods and sources as “spin”). The clause-by-clause organization has its natural limitations; for example, figuring out how the individual clauses fit into the larger architecture requires a good deal of work on the reader’s part. Still, it’s a very good idea to expose a hopefully broad audience to the stuff that’s actually in the Constitution. High school and college students—and those who teach them—will find the site a terrific resource.