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Oops! Here is the Yahoo URL for the Pinochet updates: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001211/ts/pinochet_chile_dc_11.html Later all, Mel --- "Judith K. Graves" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All, > Just a note on what's happening a couple of blocks > from the Library: > > I walked by the Supreme Court on my way from Union > Station to the Madison > Building a little before 8 am. There are about 6 > large white media vans, > with rooftop satellite dishes, all ready to beam > their reports. A colleage > said there were about a hundred photographers with > their tripods on the > sidewalk, ready to go. Everything is peaceful. > > I walked closer to the Capitol and steered clear of > the crowd, but so had > some other newsgroups. Three different groups > consisting of camera > operators and reporters had set up their filming > area on the Capitol > grounds - poised and ready to broadcast. Democracy > at work! > > You can see/hear this on the web at > http://www.cspan.org. > > I prepared the URLs below for a friend, but y'all > might have already found > these references on the Electoral College: > > Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwec.html > > A Century of Lawmaking: > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html > > Go to the search page, select Continental Congress, > and search on > 'electors' to get discussion in the Federal > Convention of 1787. This is > raw debate converage, ie, minutes of debates, not > the formal language of > the finished document. > > First draft of the Constitution from another > collection, Documents of the > Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention: > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(bdsdc > c++c01a1)) > (click on page image to get a .tiff image of the > actual broadside.) > > Go here for 8 documents that show the progression in > revision: > http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:we-the-people > > The constitution as ratified: > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(bdsdc > c++c08-1)) > > Come here on THOMAS, the congressional web site, to > search all historical > documents, including the Constitution and the > Federalist Papers. > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html > > Enjoy, > Judy > ------------------------------------------------------- > Judith K. Graves > Educational Services > National Digital Library Program > Library of Congress > 101 Independence Avenue, S.E. > Washington, D.C. 20540-1320 > [log in to unmask] (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173 > http://learning.loc.gov/learn/ ===== Mel Sanchez Santa Ana High School 520 W. Walnut Santa Ana, CA 92701 714-567-4900 fax 714-567-4952 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/