September 17, 2007 is the 220th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution--the day schools all over the country celebrate Constitution Day. Attend the Constitution Day observance on campus or read through the material on one of the many "Constitution Day" web sites.What seems to you to be the most appropriate, most enjoyable, or most memorable way of celebrating Constitution Day?
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I believe that there are many ways to celebrate such an important day of our American history. But to truly get something out of it I think it depends on each individual person.
Younger children role playing the ratification and signing of it may show them how great it really felt to have our Fore Fathers do this.
High Schoolers may learn more about it by just seeing what they now can do with their rights. They don't care what they were going to do with them 200 years ago. They want to know their rights and how to use them now.
I personally would think it would be awesome to tour Philadelphia and maybe DC and Boston just to learn all about the history of it. In my opinion what they did was truly extrodinary, with that document they laid the foundation of the most powerful nation on earth.
Jenna Doblar MWF 10am
I thought it was awesome how they tried to portray the signing of the constitution. All the facts taht came about because of this was very interesting. In order to sign the constitution you had to state a fact about the constitution. Just looking up information about the constitution to find a fact that I wanted to state was fascinating.
I feel that for this document to be able to stay around for more than 200 years is amazing. It just comes to show how great of a nation we had to be able to have our Fore Fathers thinking that far and deep that we haven't had to make all that many changes to the constitution. I think what they did really but things in a bit more of a perspective of what went on and help people realize that the constitution, although just a document, it is still very significant!
Melissa Arnold
0900
I didn't know many facts about the Constitution until I started looking up facts about it and I was truly amazed by them and how interesting some of them are. I would never have thought of holding a Constituion Day on campus but I believe that they did a good job. I liked how they got the students involved by having them recite a fact in order to sign their name on the Consistution. Also for this document to still be around after 200 years shows how strong and powerful it was back then as it is today. However it is crazy to think that one document can explain our rights today as it did back then.
Tyhe Mischke MWF11am
Constitution Day wasn't what I thought it was. I figured there would be more stuff to learn about, but all we had to do was give a fact we knew about the Constitution and then they gave us more feedback on our known fact. So I was hoping there would've been more to learn and see but maybe another time.
Constitution day was a lot of fun. It's to bad more people didn't come and sign but it was fun.
Alan Petersen
Kellen says he was hoping for more constitution-related activities. Actually, the organizers were hoping to do more to celebrate the event too. Any ideas on how to celebrate next year?
I strongly think that on Consistution Day every classroom in America should dedicate a portion of the time to that subject. I mean it is important for students arcoss the nation to know this important day just like any other holiday. Sometimes I do not think there is a enough advertising towards this day if you ask me. What I learn is that James Madison wrote most of the consitution and it is the foundation of our rights today.
Augustus Capers Jr. MWF 9AM
At the Constitution Day both, in front of Graham Hall, I signed a list marking forever in history that I, Cherise Smith, participated in the historic recreation of signing the constitution!
I also managed to collect two interesting facts that I had not known about the constitution. One; it is the shortest constitution, and two, it’s the oldest constitution still in use today. That’s pretty cool!
The main thing that happened yesterday is that anyone who took part in or saw posters about Constitution Day were remined in some small way of the living document which has been apart of this country since its founding and apart of our lives since infancy.
Constitution day was anticlimactic at best.For an event that was supposed to celebrate the constitution,the foundation of our government,very little happened.
The best way to celebrate this day is to compare this country to others.Venezuela,Nicaraugua,and Iran all have power crazed leaders who are consolidating their power even as this is being written.Every day should be constitution day.
Terry Kenny
I wasn't able to attend the Constitution day celebration but I thought the story about Louise Leigh, the founder of Constitution day in 1997,was pretty neat. She started this day of recognition basically because she gained knowledge and appreciation about the U.S. Consitution and thought others needed to know more as well, according to www.constitutionday.com.
Dustin Bonn MWF 10am
I went to Grahm Hall and visited the constitution guy. Before we could sign the constitution and sign up for his drawing, we had to name one fact about the constitution. The fact that I gave him was that the constitution was older than my parents. He stated that the constitution is over 200 years old and that no one is as old as the constitution. It was very interesting to see how things were done when they signed the constitution and the interesting facts about it. All in all it was a good day!
-Kyle Kaup
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