| Constitution Day Conference
| Constitution Day - September 17 |
CRF-OC's Constitution Day Conference was added in response to the U.S. Department of Education's mandate that educational institutions (accepting federal aid) celebrate Constitution Day, (September 17th) with educational programming to improve students' understanding of the role the U.S. Constitution plays in our country.
Constitution Day is presented in collaboration with Chapman University, the Orange County Department of Education, Orange County Superior Court and the Orange County and Federal Bar Associations.
The workshops will be based around the three branches of government, the executive, the legislative and the judicial, and how the Constitution creates interplay between them to provide checks and balances for our government. Each workshop will deal with a "theme" regarding an amendment to the Constitution and showcase how that branch relates to and interacts with the other branches.
The culmination of the workshops will be a Supreme Court hearing with sitting judicial officers augmented by students selected from the workshops to listen to arguments from accomplished attorneys regarding the theme amendment and to question them about their stance. The bench will then deliberate and reach a verdict based upon on the arguments. High school students learn, through the workshop process, that the Constitution is a living document that governs our everyday lives.
The Evolution of Equal:
Brown, Mendez and the 14th Amendment
Keynote Address by
Sandra Robbie
Producer of the PBS Emmy Award winning documentary
Join CRF-OC, the Department of Education, Orange County Superior Court and the Orange County and Federal Bar Associations in interactive workshops to explore and celebrate our Constitutional rights. This year the conference theme will be - The Evolution of Equal: Brown, Mendez and the 14th Amendment- and centered around the historic Orange County case Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947).
Click below to read an article from the Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Feb. 2005)
by The Hon. Frederick P. Aguirre, Superior Court of California, Orange County:
To register for this year's Constitution Day Conference, please download and complete the registration form fax or mail to:
15411 Redhill Suite B
Tustin CA, 92780
Fax: 714.258.8727
Thank You to Our 2009 Constitution Day Sponsors!
GOLD
Orange County Bar Association-
Charitable Fund
Silver
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Orange County Federal Bar Association, Orange County Chapter
Bronze
Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County
Jones Day
Outwater & Pinckes
Special Thanks
Orange County Bar Association
Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund
Chapman University
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