Constitution Day
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"Constitution Day" commemorates the day, September 17, 1787, when the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention actually completed and signed the U.S. Constitution. The links below provide closer looks at the Constitution itself as well related issues.

NARA: National Archives and Records Administration
NARA celebrates this important day in our nation's history by presenting activities, lessons and information, such as brief biographies of the delegates, and some of the issues causing controversies about ratification.
**Teaching With Documents: Observing Constitution Day**

View a high resolution scan of the original, signed Constitution; download a transcript; check out the online exhibits about the making of the charters and the impact of the charters--all at NARA's presentation of:
**The Charters of Freedom**

National Constitution Center
An interactive version of the constitution is based on The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda R. Monk.
**Interactive Constitution**

A collection of stories and headlines spotlighting some of the people, events and issues that have shaped the Constitution is available at:
**Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline**

Perhaps you'd like to read the Constitution in Spanish, Arabic, or Chinese.
**Other Languages**

Library of Congress
One of the Library of Congress' repositories for Constitutional documents and information may be accessed in the American Memory Collection at:
**Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention**

**more Constitution Day resources**

Congress passed legislation in 2004 establishing Constitution Day. The Federal Register of the United States issued the notice in May of 2005 announcing its implementation. You can read the official notice from the Federal Register here.
Although everyone agrees it is important to know about the U.S. Constitution, when "Constitution Day" was enacted, there were questions about some of the contradictions inherent in Congress mandating what to teach, as this article from msnbc points out.
"Constitution-Building in the U.S. and Iraq" is a workshop being offered by the Alameda County of Education on Saturday, September 10 from 9 a.m. till noon. For more information contact Avi Black @ 510.670.4239 or ablack@acoe.org .

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