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2024 Constitution Day Commemoration
September 17 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Hear the Constitution as you’ve never heard it before — live.
Theater students from the UWM Peck School of the Arts present a staged reading of the U.S. Constitution in commemoration of its signing on Sept. 17, 1787.
Free pocket U.S. Constitutions will be available at the event.
Resources
- Read the U.S. Constitution. Produced by the National Archives and Records Administration, this site contains a full transcript of the Constitution as well as images of the original document and other historical facts.
- 8 Basic Facts about the Bill of Rights.
- 25 Landmark Constitutional Law Supreme Court Decisions.
- Register to Vote and Election Information. This site provides information on voter registration and information on upcoming elections.
- Test your Constitutional knowledge with this online quiz.
- Test your overall civics knowledge with iCivics, an online game created by Sandra Day O’Connor.
- Additional classroom lessons.
- Learn about free speech at UWM.
All U.S. educational institutions that receive federal funding are required to hold an educational program about the U.S. Constitution for students on Sept. 17 (or as close to Sept. 17 as possible, if the day falls on a weekend).
