Via Joel Fishman, Ph.D., Asst. Director for Lawyer Services: “The Pennsylvania Constitution Web Site at Duquesne University School of Law has been updated with more than 20,000 pages and a newly-designed web site, that includes:
The colonial constitutional documents are now available (Charter to William Penn, Great Law of 1682, three frames of government and the
charter of privileges of 1701) from the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau, along with each of the state’s constitutions in full text along with all amendments (1776, 1790, 1838, 1874, and 1968).
The constitutional debates of each convention are now available except for two volumes from the 1837 convention still needed to be scanned) as well as the 1920 and 1959 constitutional reports. These materials as well as those listed below are all in PDF format.
There are three treatises on the constitutions: Charles Buckalew and Thomas White on the Constitution of 1874, and Robert Woodside on the Constitution of 1968.
Under Digests and Citators, we have added the Pepper & Lewis’s Digest of Decisions and Ecylcopedia of Laws published early in the twentieth century (one of the predecessors to the West digest system) and George Henry’s Digest of Decisions that cumulates the decisions from the single volumes of James Monaghan, a court reporter of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in late nineteenth century. A citator to early constitutions is in preparation.
A collection of Pennsylvania attorneys-general opinions from 1954 to 2006 have been added (Westlaw and Lexis only go back to 1977).”
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