USC hosts event to celebrate Constitution Day

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A law professor and specialist on American legal history from Cornell University is speaking at the University of South Carolina about the U.S. Constitution as part of a national celebration of the document.

Spokeswoman Megan Sexton says Aziz Rana’s address is titled “The Modern Rise of Constitutional Veneration.” It’s to be held at 7 p.m. in Gambrell Hall.

The talk is free and open to the public. National Constitution Day commemorates the day when delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in 1787.

Rana has written numerous articles on American legal and constitutional history, national security issues and the ongoing political crisis in the Mideast in connection with changes known as the “Arab Spring.”