United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is one of eight subcommittees within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Jurisdiction
From the Senate Judiciary Committee website:
 * (1) Amendments to the United States Constitution
 * (2) Civil rights oversight
 * (3) Property rights
 * (4) Federal-state relations
 * (5) Individual rights
 * (6) Commemorative Congressional Resolutions
 * (7) Interstate compacts