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Constitution Day: Honoring the Founders' Legacy
September 5, 2008

Azusa Pacific University unites with schools around the country by celebrating Constitution Day on September 16-17.

Campus Events:

  • Tuesday, September 16, Lecture: "We the People...": Commemorating the Constitution, Building One, Room 354, West Campus, 8:05-9:30 a.m.
    Chris Flannery, Ph.D., will present a lecture about the formation of the U.S. Constitution, and allow time for questions and answers. All are welcome.
     
  • Wednesday, September 17, Brown Bag Lunch Discussion: The Electoral College: What is It? Why Do We Have It?, Duke 116, 12-12:45 p.m.
    Daniel Palm, Ph.D., Jonathon Pyles, and Jennifer Walsh, Ph.D., will facilitate a discussion surrounding the history and purpose of the electoral college, and allow time for questions and answers. All are welcome.
Constitution Day Background:
 
Senator Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat and Congress' unofficial constitutional scholar, believes that American primary, secondary, and post-secondary students lack significant knowledge regarding the United States Constitution. In December 2004, Senator Byrd proposed an amendment that was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in an attempt to increase students' knowledge about the constitution.
 
The legislation requires that all educational institutions receiving federal funds implement educational programs relating the U.S. Constitution on September 17 of each year. This date was chosen due to the fact that on September 17, 1787 the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the United States Constitution and present it to the American public.
 
Web Resources:
 
www.constitutioncenter.org - An online, interactive Constitution
 
www.archives.gov - Interactive, online features about the Constitution, as well as biographical sketches of the 39 signers of the Constitution
 
We would like to thank the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for their Constitution Day Implementation Guide and USA Funds for providing additional reference materials.

 

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