Constitution Day
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is an American federal observance recognizing the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become United States citizens by birth or naturalization. It is normally observed on September 17th, the day the United States Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787 in Philadelphia.
This year, Texas State University is hosting Dr. Jeremy D. Bailey, Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.
Dr. Bailey’s books include Thomas Jefferson and the Executive Power (Cambridge University Press), James Madison and Constitutional Imperfection (Cambridge University Press), and The Idea of Presidential Representation (University of Kansas Press).
His articles have appeared in a wide variety of journals including the American Political Science Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the History of Political Thought. From 2019 to 2023, he served as editor of American Political Thought.
Dr. Bailey’s Constitution Day lecture is entitled "Native Nations and Jefferson’s Constitution of 1804” and will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. in the Alkek Teaching Theater.
The lecture is sponsored by Discourse in Democracy and the Department of Political Science and is made possible by a grant from the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History.
For more information, you may contact the Department of Political Science via email at politicalscience@txstate.edu.
Student Government will be at the Quad on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., distributing pocket-sized United States Constitutions to students.
The main goal of this activity is to make their fellow students understand the importance of the U.S. Constitution and in particular, the right to vote which is one of the greatest privileges in a democracy.