Constitution Day

34 Continental Congress Delegates signed the United States Constitution, per the U.S. House of Representatives' History, Art, and Archives

[Georgia ratified it on January 2, 1788, per GPO's Ben's Guide to U.S. Government

A total of 39 delegates signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787.

Not all the convention delegates approved the final product; 16 chose not to sign the Constitution in September 1787.

The five signatories who signed the Constitution but did not serve in the Continental Congress are Richard Bassett of Delaware, Jacob Broom of Delaware, John Blair of Virginia, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina, and David Brearley of New Jersey.

• Annenberg Classroom

  Resources are listed here for teachers for Constitution Day.
• Interactive Constitution -- from the National Constitution Center
  • App available too!
• National Endowment for the Humanities Commemorating Constitution Day

  Teacher's guide from the NEH.
• Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy

  A painting of the Signing of the Constitution with information about the delegates and the convention. [On view in the U.S. Capitol, House wing]

"The Framers gave us a document durable and flexible enough to take us from the agrarian land of the 18th century, of the musket, the axe and the plow-to the country we know today, of the Internet and the human genome and a thousand different cultures living together in one nation like a glittering mosaic." 
- Michael Beschloss at the ceremony to unveil page two of the Constitution in its new encasement, September 15, 2000, in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 12:00pm to 1:00pm - virtual program on celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Guest speaker:  Jessica Vanlanduyt from the Atlanta History Center.

Jessica Vanlanduyt is Vice President of Guest Experiences at the Atlanta History Center and curated the exhibition Any Great Change: The Centennial of the 19th Amendment .

Recording of the event is in SMARTech

   For e-books on women's suffrage, see the Books tab/page on this Guide.