Legal research options...

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Learn Multiple Legal Research Platforms
lawyerist.com/learn-multiple-legal-research-platforms/

Federal statutes and regulations:
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute www.law.cornell.edu/

Legislative record, history and reports:
Library of Congress’ THOMAS thomas.loc.gov/

Supreme Court cases, information, analysis:
LII www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
or
SCOTUSBlog www.scotusblog.com/

Fishing for cases by keyword and jurisdiction:
Google Scholar scholar.google.com/
or
Fastcase www.fastcase.com/
or
Public Library of Law www.plol.org/Pages/Search.aspx

Boiled-down background information by legal issue: treatises in your law library:
Justia www.justia.com/
or
NoLo www.nolo.com/

Deep secondary source research and multiple specific jurisdiction inquiries:
Westlaw lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/signon10.asp?path=%2fDesktopDefault.aspx
or
LexisNexis www.lexisnexis.com/

Examples of real legal documents, forms, court filings:
JD Supra www.jdsupra.com/

Constitutional history and event-oriented background information:
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page