IT MAY NOT BE A NATIONAL
HOLIDAY, BUT FEW EVENTS IN OUR
HISTORY ARE AS SIGNIFICANT AS
CONSTITUTION DAY.
IT WAS ON THIS DATE,
SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1787, THAT
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WAS
SIGNED IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
STUDENTS AT THOMAS JEFFERSON
INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL HAVE
BEEN LEARNING ABOUT THE
DOCUMENT. THEIR SCHOOL IS
ACTUALLY NAMED AFTER ONE OF
THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT.
Phillip Mitchell, Thomas
Jefferson 4th Grade"It's very
important to know about the
Constitution because we need
to know about America's
history of what, of how we
became a country" JEFFERSON
AND HIS CLOSE FRIEND JOHN
ADAMS HELPED WRITE THE
DOCUMENT. BUT NEITHER MAN
SIGNED IT BECAUSE BOTH WERE IN
EUROPE AT THE TIME IT WAS
RATIFIED.
ALEX TREBEK IS BACK TO
HOSTING JEOPARDY FOLLOWING HIS
SCARE WITH PANCREATIC CANCER.
