Stop by Kemp Library during Constitution Week (Sept 17-23) to pick up a free pocket Constitution! Click this link or the image below for the online PDF version.
In 2005, Congress designated September 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.
Commemorate Constitution Day with ESU's American Democracy Project in the Gender and Sexuality Center for a live-virtual 19th Amendment Tour of the National Constitution Center's newest exhibit on women's suffrage on Thursday, September 15th at 2 PM. Join our discussion in-person or watch the tour yourself on Zoom.
The American Democracy Project (ADP) will host a National Constitution Day Conversation on Friday, September 16 from 2-3 p.m. ET. Free and open to all. Designed to reach across differences, this hour-long event, hosted by AASCU's American Democracy Project, creates a space for open discussion of the U.S. Constitution. This national facilitated dialogue is based on the fundamental value of the pursuit of knowledge for the public good. We will provide access to information about the U.S. Constitution, but you need not be an expert to enjoy this event and to share in the lively conversation. Open to all higher education students, faculty, and staff. Bring your classes and student organizations, and join us for this national dialogue.
The years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789 have been described as either the best of times or the worst of times and rarely separated from the U.S. Constitution. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, described as saving the Revolution, others have argued that the Constitution’s framers put an end to the liberating tendencies of the Revolution. How did the pre-Constitution, post-independence United States work? What were the possibilities and the tremendous opportunities? Editors Douglas Bradburn and Christopher R. Pearl examine this critical period in American history and the pivotal decade of the 1780s.
The Law Library of Congress' Constitution Day event will feature Harvard Law School William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus Mark Tushnet in an interview with University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff. Professor Tushnet and Dean Goluboff will discuss Professor Tushnet’s book on the Hughes-era United States Supreme Court, The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941. The event will also feature opening remarks by Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut and closing remarks from Jeanne Dennis, senior counsel, Legal Programs and Initiatives, of the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service. Jeanne will provide an update on the Constitution Annotated, a site that provides summaries of U.S. constitutional provisions and the leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have interpreted them.
More information is posted here.
Register here (select "Virtual Attendee").
September 17, 2021 is Constitution Day! Commemorate it by reading the U.S. Constitution.
Signed on this day in 1787, the Constitution defines the framework of the Federal Government of the United States.
Constitution of the United States, National Archives
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- Preamble to the United States Constitution
View the Constitution in the National Archives Catalog.
Read the transcript on the National Archives' America's Founding Documents website.
A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the U.S. Constitution, a history from the National Archives.
