Clarifying The Bluebook's rules pertaining to constitutions and summarizing Rules 1-9

Rewording and clarifying Rules 1-9, 11, 20.4, and 21.7 in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th Ed.) so that a layperson can easily understand how to create citations to the documents described by these rules. ## Deliverables I am looking for someone to clarify, reword, and rephrase rules in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th Ed.) so that a layperson could easily determine how to create citations to the documents covered by these rules. Your particular task is to paraphrase Rules 11, 20.4, and 21.7 in layman’s terms, while ensuring that each “type?? of authority is clear and unambiguous. The ideal document would: (1) list every type of authority that falls within the scope of the Rule; (2) summarize the required information necessary to render a citation to that authority; (3) instruct a layman on how to abbreviate that required information; and (4) instruct the user how to arrange the required information to create a citation to that type of authority. For constitutions, this is pretty easy: there are only three types of constitutions: U.S. state, federal, and international. As an example of what I'm looking for, let's assume you are citing to a U.S. state constitution; the information required is the state name, the year of ratification, the year of adoption, the specific provision to which you're citing, whether there's any subsequent history, and the type of subsequent history. For international constitutions, you need the country, the constitution name, the constitution abbreviation, and you must indicate whether it's evident that the document is a constitution -- if it's not, you append [Constitution]. I am also asking for you to reword and clarify Rules 1-9 unambiguously, which is to say in layman's terms. They should be absurdly clear. Additionally, you must cite any assertions that you make. So if you make a statement based on Rule 11.1, end it with {R11.1} as in “This is an assertion. {R11.1}." Please do not summarize or import the contents of tables ??" they are simply for reference. I would suggest going through the Bluebook and figuring out exactly how much work this will be for you -- quality is of the utmost importance. I don't necessarily care about grammar or spelling, but I want it to be complete. I don't want anything to be missing. Someone without a Bluebook should be able to read this document and know how to cite to anything (provided they have a copy of the tables -- I am not asking for you to incorporate the tables at all). I am ONLY looking for people with extensive experience with the Bluebook -- please do not respond if you've never heard of this citation guideline.