Constitution Day and Constitution Week commemorate the adoption of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. Constitution Day this year falls this Tuesday. The observance of Constitution Week runs annually September 17-23.

Officially enacted on August 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a congressional resolution petitioned by Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Constitution Week carries the tradition of a Presidential Proclamation that continues today. A major purpose of the observance week is to promote study and education about the Constitution and to offer attention to naturalization ceremonies that are scheduled specifically to occur that week. In 2019, for example, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services held more than 300 ceremonies in which more than 30,000 people became citizens.

Check out additional information provided by DAR about the importance of Constitutional literacy and the purpose of Constitution Week, including a link to an informational flyer. 

The National Constitution Center has also put together an 11-minute video describing the events that occurred during the spring-summer 1787 Constitutional Convention, or “Miracle at Philadelphia” as the convention is sometimes described.