{"id":2002,"date":"2026-07-18T06:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:39:29","slug":"legal-corpora-federal-constitution-federal-law-case-law-california-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/legal-corpora-federal-constitution-federal-law-case-law-california-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Corpora \u2014 Federal Constitution, Federal Law, Case.law, California Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research and training only. Not legal advice.<\/strong> Verify against official sources before any real-world use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four primary corpora<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>Corpus<\/strong><\/td>Storage<\/strong><\/td>Search commands<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Federal Constitution<\/strong><\/td>us_code.us_code_sections \u00b7 title = CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES<\/td>search constitution \u2026 \u00b7 search federal constitution \u2026<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Federal law (U.S. Code)<\/strong><\/td>same table \u00b7 TITLE N\u2014\u2026 rows<\/td>search federal law \u2026 \u00b7 search us code \u2026<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Case law (case.law \/ CAP)<\/strong><\/td>case_law.case_law_cases<\/td>search case law \u2026 \u00b7 search case.law \u2026<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>California Constitution<\/strong><\/td>us_code.us_code_sections \u00b7 title = CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION<\/td>search california constitution \u2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/strong> California statutes<\/em> remain under title = CALIFORNIA CODES (search california law \u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal statute search excludes<\/strong> both constitutions and California rows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Status & implement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>law status
law init
law help
law promote          # re-run CA constitution title promotion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Python (does not require rebuilt binary):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>python scripts\/implement_legal_corpora.py
python scripts\/implement_legal_corpora.py –sample “due process”
python scripts\/verify_legal_corpora.py<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typed commands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em># 1 Federal Constitution
search constitution due process
search federal constitution fourth amendment
constitution status
constitution upload replace

# 2 Federal law
search federal law artificial intelligence
search us code wire fraud
us code status
federal law status

# 3 Case law (Harvard Caselaw Access Project \/ case.law)
search case law privacy
search case.law miranda
search caselaw fourth amendment
case law status
case.law status
case law init

# 4 California Constitution
search california constitution due process
search ca constitution equal protection
california constitution status
california constitution init

# California statutes (codes)
search california law wage hour
california law status<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Import \/ rebuild<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Federal Constitution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>constitution upload replace
# or
python scripts\/upload_us_constitution.py –output-dir us_constitution –replace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal U.S. Code<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>html upload us code replace <folder><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case law (case.law)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>python legal_data\/case_law\/import_caselaw_mysql.py –reporters us f3d cal-2d
python legal_data\/case_law\/import_caselaw_mysql.py –max-volumes 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California Constitution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Promoted automatically from leginfo rows whose chapter contains \u201cConstitution\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>python scripts\/implement_legal_corpora.py
# or in-app after rebuild:
california constitution init
law promote<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California statutory codes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>python legal_data\/california\/import_california_mysql.py<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a full CA re-import, run law promote \/ implement_legal_corpora.py again so constitution articles are retitled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MySQL layout<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Statutes \/ constitutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>us_code.us_code_sections
  title | chapter | sub_chapter | section | code_text | source_file<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[text]
<\/em>case_law.case_law_cases
  case_id, name, court, citation, reporter, volume, case_text, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disclaimer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Educational and research use only. Not a substitute for licensed legal counsel or official reporters. Law changes; confirm with primary sources (govinfo.gov, congress.gov, leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, case.law).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research and training only. Not legal advice. Verify against official sources before any real-world use. Four primary corpora # Corpus Storage Search commands 1 Federal Constitution us_code.us_code_sections \u00b7 title = CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES search constitution \u2026 \u00b7 search federal constitution \u2026 2 Federal law (U.S. Code) same table \u00b7 TITLE N\u2014\u2026 rows search […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macdaddy4sure.ai\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}