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“I’m surprised that the Congress and the president would choose to honor the Constitution by violating it,” Edward Rubin, dean of Vanderbilt Law School, said in a statement released by the university. “Nothing could be further from the...
To meet the law’s conditions, Rubin is hosting a panel at Vanderbilt this week on the constitutionality of Constitution Day. He has invited Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), who inserted the law as an amendment to an unrelated spending bill approved by Congress last year.
Byrd, who carries a copy of the Constitution with him at all times, said in a press release, “Without constant study and renewal of our knowledge of the Constitution and its history we are in peril of allowing our freedoms to erode.”
The Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787, but because that day fell on a Saturday this year, the U.S. Department of Education decreed that schools could celebrate this week or last. It was unclear how or whether the department would enforce the law, which applies to all schools?...
Colleges and universities have marked the holiday, officially named “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day,” in a variety of ways.