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A celebration marking the 227th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution is scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the old Supreme Court Chamber in the Utah State Capitol.
It will include remarks by Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, 3rd District Court Presiding Judge Royal Hansen and Utah State Bar President James Gilson.
A third grade class from Hawthorne Elementary will recite the preamble to the Constitution.
The event is designed in part to promote a one-hour course on the Constitution that the state bar designed for use in public schools. It wrote that course after a 2011 survey by Annenberg Institute for Civics found that only 38 percent of Americans could name all three branches of government, and 33 percent could not name any of them.
The Constitution was adopted on Sept. 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and ratified by conventions in eleven states. It went into effect on March 4, 1789.
Lee Davidson