Ithaca College

The Ithaca College Library invites you to participate in Constitution Day, a nationwide effort to observe and remember the birth of modern democracy in the United States, to be commemorated this year on September 16, 2005.

On September 17, 1787, the United States Constitution was signed by 39 of the 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Delegates from 12 states gathered at the Convention with the purpose of revising the nation's first written charter, the Articles of Confederation. Instead, they discarded the nation's first system of government and created a new one they believed would provide the United States with a strong national government to deal with the many challenges of the Confederation. The Constitution was subsequently ratified by each of the original 13 states.

Test your Constitutional knowledge -- take this short quiz and see your results: https://www.ithaca.edu/library/news/constitution.php