This Wednesday and Thursday, San Francisco State University will host its 20th annual Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference with speakers Jonathan Gienapp and Stephanie Jones-Rogers.
The federal holiday celebrates the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. In 2005, new legislation was established surrounding the holiday that required every educational institution that receives federal funds to celebrate the holiday with educational programming.
Marc Stein, professor of history at SFSU, has been the conference coordinator since 2015. Stein said there will be an array of topics covered across the eight sessions, including populism, the First Amendment and government censorship of LGBTQ+ history.
“There are a lot of things related to constitutional law that are the subject of great national concern right now, whether it’s birthright citizenship or executive authority or checks and balances, the rights of undocumented people and sending the National Guard into American c...
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