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Today is the day. September 17, 2026. Constitution Day. And not just any Constitution Day — the first one celebrated during the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. Two hundred and thirty-nine years ago today, thirty-nine men signed their names to a document in Philadelphia. They didn't know if it would work. They didn't know if the country would survive its first decade, let alone its first 250 years. They signed anyway. Today, your students are part of that st

September 17, 1787. Philadelphia. Independence Hall. Thirty-nine delegates stepped forward and signed their names to a document that would become the foundation of the most enduring democracy in human history. Two hundred and thirty-nine years later — in the middle of America's 250th anniversary year — we still live under that document. What actually happened on September 17, 1787 The Constitutional Convention had been meeting since May. Delegates from 12 of the 13 states arg