Happy Constitution day! (Remember to fly your flag today.)
Have you read the U.S. Constitution lately?
Okay, maybe that’s a little tough to read. Check out the on-line display of the National Archives and Records Administration in the Charters of Freedom section:
- A much-easier-to-read transcript of the Constitution (so you don’t have to strain at the image above)
- “A More Perfect Union,” an essay on the creation of the Constitution
- Questions and answers on the 1787 Convention in Philadelphia, and on the Constitution
- The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution
- Amendments 11 through 27 — notice that, although not ratified until 1991, the 27th Amendment was in the package of amendments proposed by James Madison in 1789, a package of twelve proposed amendments, of which ten were ratified within a few months to become the Bill of Rights
- Stories about the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787
- Faulkner murals in the Archives Rotunda, on the presentation of the Constitution (and Declaration of Independence)
- Information on visiting the actual documents, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
More:
- Constitution’s extra page shown in public for first time (news.yahoo.com)
- Sepetember 17th is Constitution Day! (rulibrary.typepad.com)
- OUR VIEW: The U.S. Constitution at 225 (tauntongazette.com)
- Baker Center celebrates Constitution Day (knoxnews.com)
- The Bill Of Rights Institute Celebrates Constitution Day With Free Education Resources (paramuspost.com)
- U.S. Day, March 4 — anniversary of the Constitution’s enactment
- Constitution Day 2008 – featuring links to interactive Howard Chandler Christy painting of the signing of the document
- Oh, heck — go directly there! Prof. Gordon Lloyd created an interactive version of Christy’s painting, linking to information about each of the delegates pictured — it’s fun
- Celebrating Constitution Day All Week Long! (teacherlingo.com)
- The Bill of Rights Institute Celebrates Constitution Day With Free Education Resources (educationviews.org)
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