Pre-Law
Constitution Day
What is Constitution Day?
The birthday of our Constitution, September 17, the date in 1787 on which delegates to the Philadelphia Convention completed and signed the U.S. Constitution.
The ideas on which America was founded--commitments to the rule of law, limited government, and the ideals of liberty, equality and justice--are embodied in the Constitution, the oldest written constitution of any nation. Constitution Day is intended to celebrate not only the birthday of our government, but the ideas that make us Americans.
The United States Government has designated September 17 as Constitution Day to commemorate the September 17, 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Preamble to The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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.