Constitution Day 2006
Lamson Library celebrates Constitution Day, September 17th 2006. Standing as the oldest written constitution still in effect, its 7000 words also make in one of the shortest. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History explains:
The basic document by which the United States is governed, the Constitution was drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and ratified the following year. The Constitution divides governmental powers between the national and state governments in a system known as federalism. It also divides the national government into three independent branches-executive, legislative, and judicial-which can serve as checks and balances upon one another.
Lamson Library joins the university’s celebration with a special display of materials on the US Constitution and its history.
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