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Happy September - Don't miss the following events! Location varies and noted for each event. As usual we are celebrating CONSTITUTION DAY on Sept. 17 with.... Wed., Sept. 17 – Register to Vote (all day in the Rotunda - Baker Ambassadors) • 10:30 am - Baker Café – Amendment 1 - TN Constitution - Dr. Mary English, Baker Fellow (Rotunda Reading Room) • 11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Sign the Constitution! – Baker Ambassadors on the Pedestrian Walkway • 2 pm - UT Law College Dean, Doug Blaze, will moderate a discussion between Gov. Bill Haslam (R) and former Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) to discuss TN's Amendment 2 that will appear on the November 2014 statewide ballot. Amendment 2 adds new checks and balance to the process of the governor appointing Supreme Court and appellate court judges. (TOYOTA) Tues., Sept. 23, 7 pm – Anne Mayhew Honors Lecture: Robert Reich. Former Secretary of Labor, UC Berkeley professor of public policy and author. Sponsored by the Chancellor’s Honors Program with support from the Baker Center and the College of Business Administration. (Cox Auditorium) Wed., Sept. 24, 5:30 pm – Global Security Lecture – "Covenant Sans Sword" Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar (India, Ret.) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India, will discuss current issues in Southeast Asia. (TOYOTA) Free & Open to the Public