Constitution Day
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is an American federal observance recognizing the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become United States citizens by birth or naturalization. It is normally observed on September 17th, the day the United States Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787 in Philadelphia.
This year, Texas State University is hosting Dr. Benjamin Kleinerman, the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University.
Dr. Kleinerman’s books include The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (University Press of Kansas) and Extra-Legal Power and Legitimacy: Perspectives on Prerogative (University of Kansas Press). His articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, The American Political Science Review, and Texas Law Review.
His Constitution Day lecture is entitled "The Forgotten Role of Republican Virtue in the American Constitution” and will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. in the Alkek Teaching Theater. The lecture is sponsored by Discourse in Democracy and the Department of Political Science and is made possible by a grant from the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History.
For more information, you may contact the Department of Political Science via email at politicalscience@txstate.edu.
Student Government will be at the Quad on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., distributing pocket-sized United States Constitutions to students.
The main goal of this activity is to make their fellow students understand the importance of the U.S. Constitution and in particular, the right to vote which is one of the greatest privileges in a democracy.