The Georgia Constitution Web Page is provided as a public service to the people of Georgia. Permission is granted to not only use and bookmark this site but to provide links to either the site's home page or to individual documents in the site on web pages of users.

The web page is intended as a free service. All that we ask in return is a record of how often it is used. Our counter does not record who accesses the site but simply gives us a record of accesses of each page and of the site as a whole. This is important in justifying the cost of providing and maintaining the site.

A constitution is a public document and cannot be copyrighted per se. However, a great deal of work has gone into legal research to find accurate versions of each constitution, optical character scanning of the constitutions and other documents to produce digitized text bases, HTML coding, proofing of the documents, and web site organization and internal linkages. So, it is this creative and labor-intensive aspect of the Georgia Constitution Web Page that a copyright is claimed.

Permission is granted to download or copy portions of documents on the Georgia Constitution Web Page for legal or educational purposes, but not to download, copy, or otherwise capture (e.g., "whack") entire documents or pages for placement on disks, hard drives, servers, or other storage formats--including other web sites--without specific permission from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. For more information, contact Mel Hill.
 
 

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