Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and Constitution Week, 2024
Constitution Day also marks an occasion to celebrate the welcoming of new U.S. citizens, who have completed the naturalization process. The list below collects a variety of items from the National Archives, the library's collections, and the public record, which provide more information and historical context for this commemoration of the U.S. Constitution's ratification by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787.


26 items
The Original Compromise
What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking
Ratification
the People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Six Amendments
How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
We the People
the United States Constitution Explored and Explained
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
The Second Creation
Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era
The Framers' Coup
the Making of the United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States
a Primer for the People
Making Sense of the Constitution
a Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law
The United States Constitution
What It Says, What It Means : the Text of the United States Constitution, Including An Understandable Description of Each Article and Amendment, Right in the Palm of Your Hand
The Constitution
An Introduction
The Nineteenth Amendment
Women's Right to Vote
The Thirteenth Amendment
Ending Slavery
This Is Our Constitution
Discover America With a Gold Star Father
Reading the Constitution
Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
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