This website provides a portal for selected scholarship that examines the original understanding and original meaning of the U.S. Constitution. A secondary purpose is to provide links to online resources useful to those researching the Constitution’s original understanding or original meaning.

Scholarship posted on this site is limited to work that reaches reasoned conclusions based on an appropriate range of sources. Opinions expressed in work posted here are the authors’ own, and not necessarily those of any other person or institution.

Scholars interested in posting their articles should send a PDF file to the manager for review and should be able to provide any necessary copyright permissions.

This website is managed under the direction of Robert G. Natelson, Professor of Law, The University of Montana: robert.natelson@umontana.edu.

Our thanks to the Thomson Gale Company for helping to make this site possible.