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§168 Constitution of the United States; Preparation and Publication of Revised Edition; Annotations; Supplements; Decennial Editions and Supplements

Title 2 › Chapter 5— LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › § 168

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Summary

The Librarian of Congress must publish a hardbound revised edition called the Constitution Annotated with notes on Supreme Court decisions through the end of the October 1971 term. After the October 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1979 terms, the Librarian must issue cumulative pocket‑part supplements (small update booklets) with decisions decided after October 1971. After the October 1981 term and then every tenth October term, a new hardbound decennial revised edition must be published with all earlier annotations. After the October 1983 term, and after each later October term in an odd-numbered year whose final digit is not 1, cumulative pocket‑part supplements must update the most recent decennial edition with decisions not included there.

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Title 2, §168

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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 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.

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2 U.S.C. § 168

Title 2 — The Congress

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60