Constitution Day Overview
The Student Voting Project, was a bipartisan effort to increase student knowledge about the democratic principles and processes in order to address a growing concern about waning student engagement in civic and governmental affairs was created in 2006. This project is designed to work with Constitution Day, a new federal requirement enacted in 2005 that designates each September 17 as Constitution Day.
- For general project information please visit the Secretary of State’s Web site (Outside Source).
- For general information on voting in California please visit Secretary of State's Web site (Outside Source).
- For the 2008 My Vote Project please visit the My Vote page (Outside Source) on the Secretary of State’s Web site.
Constitution Day Resources
- Internal Link to Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
Background and recommendations on this September 17th observance. - American Bar Association (Outside Source)
- The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands (Outside Source)
- California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (Outside Source)
- Center for Civic Education (Outside Source)
- Constitutional Rights Foundation (Outside Source)
- National Constitution Center (Outside Source)
- National Council for the Social Studies (Outside Source)
- SCORE History-Social Science (Outside Source)
