SPINDALE (Sept. 11, 2009) - Students at Isothermal Community College will read the Constitution of the United States in honor of the 222nd anniversary of its signing.

The free program will be held at noon on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Student Center Lobby. Students from American government and literature classes will participate in the reading, which will also include selections from the amendments. Light refreshments will be provided.

On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they created. The event was the culmination of a long, hot summer in which the framers of the Constitution spent many contentious hours discussing and synthesizing the various plans that had been advanced by states, individuals and young political parties. Eventually, the document became the foundation for the democracy of the United States.