Today — September 17 — is Constitution Day, the day the United States celebrates the signing of the Constitution. As part of celebrating Constitution Day, on or about September 17 educational institutions across the country have programming that discusses the Constitution in some way, shape or form.
The right to vote is of paramount importance to our constitutional framework. 
It is this right that makes the US a democratic form of government, it is this right that is, in the words of the Supreme Court, “preservative of all other rights.”
This week I will be presenting a series of lectures regarding the Constitution and the Right to Vote. First off, today at 1:00 PM CDT here at Marquette University Law School, I will be speaking to the American Constitution Society chapter on the Right to Vote. The talk will be in Room 342 of Eckstein Hall.
This will be the first of three talks I will be giving as part of this Constitution Day lecture tour. Stay tuned for details about my talk tomorrow, September 18 at Penn State Law (University Park) and my talk this Thursday, September 20, at the University of Puget Sound.
Atiba Ellis 