On September 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the new legal foundation of our nation, the U.S. Constitution. Now a federal holiday also known as Citizenship ...

Constitution Day commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. In this lesson, students will hear from constitutional scholars and see an excerpt of the Broadway play “What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our Founding Fathers, who envisioned the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, had courage, ...

Constitution Week is being marked in Lincoln with a focus on helping students understand how the nation’s founding document ...

This year, as America marked its 250th birthday, we rightly celebrated the courage, clarity, conviction, and moral character ...

September 17 is Constitution Day. There will be no fireworks or national parades. No long weekend. Most Americans probably ...

Our Constitution has guided us since 1789, through success, turmoil, peace, and wars. The last few years have been tough, but we have seen tougher times. We conclude our study of Article I, the ...

It's not often that first-graders, CIA agents, agriculture inspectors and airport security workers from coast to coast all receive a lesson on the same topic -- and on the same day -- but that is what ...

September 17 is Constitution Day, in commemoration of the day the Constitution was signed in 1787. Constitution Day became a day of national observance in 2004 to celebrate the document that lays down ...

SOMERSET — Cheryl Crossley Simmons last Wednesday gave a presentation to students in the fifth grade at Chace Street School about how the U.S. Constitution came to be, some of the amendments in it and ...

My thanks, once again, to Eugene Volokh for the invitation to guest-blog this week about some of the themes in my co-authored book with my son, Luke Paulsen, “The Constitution: An Introduction.” My ...