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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, Eighty-eighth Congress (referred to hereinafter as

the ‘‘Constitution Annotated’’), which shall contain annotations of decisions of the Supreme Court of the

United States through the end of the October 1971
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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 odd-numbered 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,
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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.