The Program in American Studies presents the University’s annual Constitution Day lecture, commemorating the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution and exploring permutations of constitutional law to the present day.
Princeton University Constitution Day Lectures include, in 2020, “Freedom of Thought and the Struggle to End Slavery” by Keith E. Whittington; in 2019, “Is Constitution Day Unconstitutional?” by George F. Will; and in, 2018, “Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign,” by Desmond Jagmohan.