Constitution Day

Constitution Day

The people of the United States of America will celebrate Constitution Day on September 17, 2010, also known as the Citizenship Day. On September 17, 1787 the US Constitutional Convention ratified the United States Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was also ratified by conventions from all the US states and has been amended 27 times. The first ten amendments are known under the name of the Bill of Rights.

Constitution Day

Constitution Day

Constitution Day

There is no other law that is above the Constitution of the United States of America. This is the supreme law in the U.S. It is a framework for the U.S government and for the relations of the federal government with the states, the citizens and all the people who live in the United States. The Constitution specifies what are the powers and the duties of the legislature part, the bicameral Congress, the executive part (led by the President) and the judicial branch (led by the Supreme Court.) Also, the Constitution establishes the federal system of government.

Interesting facts about the United States Constitution:

- the original document was handwritten by Jacob Shallus for $30 ($726 today) and today is being displayed at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. behind protective glass framed with titanium. In order to preserve the  quality of the document, the cases contain argon gas and are kept at 67 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 40 percent.

- the document contains 4,400 words, making this document the oldest and, in the same time, the shortest Constitution written in any major government in this world. The ironic part is that even the U.S Constitution contains a few spelling mistakes, one of it being: “Pensylvania” instead of “Pennsylvania” written above the signers’ names.