Pocket Constitution: The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Amendments: The Constitution at your fingertips, V3
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Pocket Constitution
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Amendments to the Constitution
The Constitution at your fingertips
Introduction by Tobias A. Dorsey
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Pocket Constitution - Tobias A. Dorsey
Pocket Constitution
Introduction
Constitution-Related Excerpts
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights
Amendments XI–XXVII
Significant Dates
Gettysburg Address
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Tips for Contacting Your Members of Congress
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Different Congressional offices prefer different methods of communication. If you send regular mail, a handwritten letter can be more effective than typed correspondence if it is neat, and courteous, brief, and to the point. All members of Congress have contact forms on their official web sites.
• Contact your own Senators (Senate.gov) or Representative (House.gov). Letters sent to other members will end up on the desk of members from your state.
• Make sure your ZIP code appears on the letter or in your email. It lets your Senators or Representative know that you are a constituent.
• Use your own words and your own stationery. Avoid signing and sending form letters.
• Be brief. One page, two or three paragraphs.
• Don’t demand a commitment before all the facts are in. Bills rarely become law in the same form as they are introduced.
• Whenever possible, identify bills by their number (use Congress.gov or GovInfo.gov).).
• If you don’t like the bill, tell your members what you believe is the correct approach.
• Be courteous. No one, including a member of Congress, responds favorably to rudeness or threats.
• Don’t pretend to wield vast political influence.
• Write to the member when he or she does something you approve of.
• Feel free to write when you have a question or problem dealing with procedures of government departments. (See our Capitol Learning Audio Course—available as an online download: "What Your Member of Congress Can Do for You".)
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The Constitution
By Tobias A. Dorsey
Author of the Legislative Drafter’s Deskbook
What you hold in your hands includes America’s fundamental legal document—the Constitution of the United States.
Every day, in Washington and across the country, people draft bills, make policies, and take actions with the Constitution in mind. Whatever it is they want to do, they need to know if it is legal and legitimate—that is, if it is constitutional. Does the government have the power to do it? Even so, does it violate separation of powers or state sovereignty or individual rights?
Those questions must always be asked, and the search for answers must always begin here, in the constitutional text. It doesn’t hold all the answers, of course—nor can it.
Some parts of the