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AUTHORIZATION

HISTORICAL NOTE PUBLIC LAW 91-589, 84 

STAT. 1585, 2 U.S.C. § 168 

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the preparation and printing of a revised 

edition of the Constitution of the United States of America--Analysis 

and Interpretation, of decennial revised editions thereof, and of biennial 

cumulative supplements to such revised editions. 

Whereas the Constitution of the United States of America-- 

Analysis and Interpretation, published in 1964 as Senate 

Document Numbered 39, Eighty-eighth Congress, serves a 

very useful purpose by supplying essential information, not 

only to the Members of Congress but also to the public at 

large;

Whereas such document contains annotations of cases decided 

by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 22, 

1964;

Whereas many cases bearing significantly upon the analysis 

and interpretation of the Constitution have been decided 

by the Supreme Court since June 22, 1964; 

Whereas the Congress, in recognition of the usefulness of this 

type of document, has in the last half century since 1913, 

ordered the preparation and printing of revised editions of 

such a document on six occasions at intervals of from ten 

to fourteen years; and 

Whereas the continuing usefulness and importance of such a 

document will be greatly enhanced by revision at shorter 

intervals on a regular schedule and thus made more readily available to Members and Committees by means of 

pocket-part supplements: Now, therefore, be it 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 

Librarian of Congress shall have prepared-- 

(1) a hardbound revised edition of the Constitution of the 

United States of America--Analysis and Interpretation, 

published as Senate Document Numbered 39, Eightyeighth Congress (referred to hereinafter as the ‘‘Constitution Annotated’’), which shall contain annotations of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States through 

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the end of the October 1971 term of the Supreme Court, 

construing provisions of the Constitution; 

(2) upon the completion of each of the October 1973, October 

1975, October 1977, and October 1979 terms of the Supreme Court, a cumulative pocket-part supplement to the 

hardbound revised edition of the Constitution Annotated 

prepared pursuant to clause (1), which shall contain cumulative annotations of all such decisions rendered by the Supreme Court after the end of the October 1971 term; 

(3) upon the completion of the October 1981 term of the Supreme Court, and upon the completion of each tenth October term of the Supreme Court thereafter, a hardbound decennial revised edition of the Constitution Annotated, 

which shall contain annotations of all decisions theretofore 

rendered by the Supreme Court construing provisions of 

the Constitution; and 

(4) upon the completion of the October 1983 term of the Supreme Court, and upon the completion of each subsequent 

October term of the Supreme Court beginning in an oddnumbered year (the final digit of which is not a 1), a cumulative pocket-part supplement to the most recent 

hardbound decennial revised edition of the Constitution 

Annotated, which shall contain cumulative annotations of 

all such decisions rendered by the Supreme Court which 

were not included in that hardbound decennial revised edition of the Constitution Annotated. 

Sec. 2. All hardbound revised editions and all cumulative pocket-part supplements shall be printed as Senate documents. 

Sec. 3. There shall be printed four thousand eight hundred and 

seventy additional copies of the hardbound revised editions 

prepared pursuant to clause (1) of the first section and of 

all cumulative pocket-part supplements thereto, of which 

two thousands six hundred and thirty-four copies shall be 

for the use of the House of Representatives, one thousand 

two hundred and thirty-six copies shall be for the use of 

the Senate, and one thousand copies shall be for the use 

of the Joint Committee on Printing. All Members of the 

Congress, Vice Presidents of the United States, and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, newly elected subsequent to the issuance of the hardbound revised edition prepared pursuant to such clause and prior to the first 

hardbound decennial revised edition, who did not receive a 

copy of the edition prepared pursuant to such clause, shall, 

AUTHORIZATION V

upon timely request, receive one copy of such edition and 

the then current cumulative pocket-part supplement and 

any further supplements thereto. All Members of the Congress, Vice Presidents of the United States, and Delegates 

and Resident Commissioners, no longer serving after the 

issuance of the hardbound revised edition prepared pursuant to such clause and who received such edition, may receive one copy of each cumulative pocket-part supplement 

thereto upon timely request. 

Sec. 4. Additional copies of each hardbound decennial revised 

edition and of the cumulative pocket-part supplements 

thereto shall be printed and distributed in accordance with 

the provisions of any concurrent resolution hereafter adopted with respect thereto. 

Sec. 5. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, to 

remain available until expended, as may be necessary to 

carry out the provisions of this joint resolution. 

Approved December 24, 1970.