United States Government

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…

The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The fo…

The Amendments to the Constitution of the USA are a continuously modified document that attempts to secure all basic and other rights for Am…

What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to t…

The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…

Volume 100 of the Short Nonfiction Collection celebrates 16 years (2007-2023) of volunteer readings which reflect the wide range of nonficti…

"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…