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’s Constitution Day Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
September 24, 2026
7pm
Alkek Teaching Theater
Dr. Zuckert's books include The Natural Rights Republic (University of Notre Dame Press), Launching Liberalism: John Locke and the Liberal Tradition (University of Kansas Press), Natural Rights and the New Republicanism (Princeton: Princeton University Press) and A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty (University Press of Kansas Press).
Dr. Zuckert co-authored and co-produced a public radio series, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine-Part Drama for the Radio.
He was also a senior scholar for Liberty!, a six-hour public television series on the American Revolution.
He was the founding editor of American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture.
Dr. Zuckert’s Constitution Day lecture is entitled
"The Declaration of Independence and the Rule of Law.”
and it will take place on
Thursday, September 24, 2026,
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.
For more information, you may contact Dr. Roger Abshire at rpa14@txstate.edu.