How well do you know the U.S. Constitution?
That’s what the University of Mary Washington expects to find out when it commemorates Constitution Day, Thursday, Sept. 17, with an interactive trivia contest that poses that same question.
Designed to promote education and engagement around the Constitution, the contest, which is open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m. at Palmieri Plaza on the Fredericksburg campus. Prizes, including copies of the Constitution, will be awarded for correct answers. Participants will be able to take pictures with a life-size reproduction of the Constitution.
Constitution Day, sometimes referred to as Citizenship Day, commemorates the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The national observance of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution originates from legislation adopted by Congress in 2004 that requires all publicly funded educational institutions to provide educational programming related to the Constitution on that day.
UMW’s Constitution Day programming is a joint effort of the Department of Political Science and the UMW chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science scholastic honorary society.
For more information, please contact Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science at 540-654-1513.