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Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyx4r8h1o9c  
  Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance, on what we can learn from state constitutions at the national level.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFMbIHdefaQ  
  Professor Kevin Gutzman, author of James Madison and the Making of America, discusses the revolutionary constitutions in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

Web Resource

• www.billofrightsinstitute.org/instructional/resources/FoundingDocuments/index.htm. 
  This Web site, sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute, provides information on historical political documents and useful teaching materials on constitutional history.

• www.camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/ 
  Sponsored by Rutgers University, this Web site for the Center for State Constitutions Studies offers a broad spectrum of information about state constitutions.

• www.constitution.org/cons/usstcons.htm.  
  This Web site provides links to the full text of the constitutions of all fifty states and to state Web sites.

• Initiative and Referendums in State Constitutions:
  http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/initiative-referendum-and-recall-overview.aspx

• Privacy Protections in State Constitutions: 
  www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/privacy-protections-in-state-constitutions.aspx

• Term Limits in State Constitutions: 
  www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/term-limits-provisions-state-law-and-constitutions.aspx

• www.iandrinstitute.org.   
  Web site for the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California, a clearinghouse for information about the initiative and referendum processes of the states.