Constitution Day on Sept. 20
Yale will participate in the first national Constitution Day with an assembly on Cross Campus at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Yale's first-ever "Constitution Hour" will feature a public reading of highlights of the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, by representatives of the faculty, staff and student body. The event is free, and the public is welcome. If there is inclement weather, the event will be held in Connecticut Hall on Old Campus.
Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law at the Law School and author of the new book "America's Constitution: A Biography," will read and discuss the significance of the preamble. David Brion Davis, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and founding director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, will speak on the Constitution and slavery; and Glenda Gilmore, the Peter V. & C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, will discuss the Constitution and women.
Constitution Day has been observed informally for nine years. President George W. Bush signed a bill on Dec. 8, 2004, designating Sept. 17 as Constitution Day nationwide. The law mandates that schools that receive federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education "implement an educational program pertaining to the United States Constitution ...." Because Sept. 17 falls on a Saturday this year, the day will be celebrated before or after the weekend by most participating institutions.
When the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Sept. 17, 1787 to sign the document that would determine the structure and function of the federal government, four of them were Yale graduates: William Livingston (B.A. 1741) of New Jersey, William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744) of Connecticut, Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1766) of Pennsylvania and Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) of Georgia. The original Constitution is on permanent display in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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