Constitution Day 2016

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The History of Constitution Day

Citizens of the United States have celebrated Independence Day and Presidents' Day since the 1870s, and in 2005, the nation began to celebrate Constitution Day. Also know as Citizenship Day, Constitution Day is an American holiday honoring the day 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution. This historic date was September 17, 1787.

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Louise Leigh and Constitution Day

Another important figure in the creation of Constitution Day is Louise Leigh. Leigh, after taking a course in Constitutional History with the National Center for Constitutional Studies, was inspired to spread her newfound love of the Constitution throughout the country. In 1997, she founded a nonprofit organization called Constitution Day, Inc. to help encourage recognition of the importance of this national holiday.

Through her efforts, Constitution Day became an official holiday alongside Citizenship Day in 2004 when, with the help of support from Senator Robert Byrd, the "Constitution Day" amendment to the Omnibus Spending Bill passed. In May 2005, the United States Department of Education backed the law when it announced that it would apply to any school receiving federal funds of any kind.

The two allowances of the law were that the head of every federal agency provide each employee with educational materials concerning the Constitution on 17th of September and that each educational institution which receives Federal funds should hold a program for students every Constitution Day.

Constitution Day, along with Independence Day and Presidents' Day, is an important part of the cultural heritage of the United States of America, because it recognizes the value of the American experiment, and the success of a nation of free people whose rights and liberties are protected by a written Constitution.

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Dr. Benjamin Franklin: "A Republic, if you can keep it."

Can we?

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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."

[Lurkinanloomin]

We lost the Constitution on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009 when all of our elected and appointed oath takers stood around and watched a man who told us he was born a British subject be sworn in as President.

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was brought to you by BOTH parties.

The Constitution says natural born citizen.
That means one who is naturally an American because they couldn’t be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Everyone in DC wanted that changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
The Senate passed a resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen because he had TWO citizen parents, even though he was born in Panama.
Then Obama runs and wins based on just being born here, even though he told us on his website he was born a British subject.
So the standard went from born here of citizen parents to just TWO citizen parents to just being born here in one election cycle without amending the Constitution.
This was done intentionally because Rubio (no citizen parents), Cruz (foreign birth, one citizen parent), Jindal (no citizen parents), and Haley (no citizen parents) were all ineligible and the future of the GOP.

The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because they all cooperated in the violation of the Constitution.

[SandRat]

[HonkyTonkMan]

Over here!

[Verginius Rufus]

We began to lose the Constitution in the Progressive Era, when the progressives believed that they were smarter than the Framers and that their reforms were so urgently needed that traditional American notions of the role of government had to be cast aside. The 16th amendment paved the way for the federal government to scrutinize every part of people's lives. The powers wielded by the IRS are the antithesis of the ideals of government held by James Madison and the other Framers.

The room in Independence Hall where the Constitution was created is furnished to look like it did in 1787. Of course it is also the room where the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Well worth seeing if you visit Philadelphia.

[Verginius Rufus]

We began to lose the Constitution in the Progressive Era, when the progressives believed that they were smarter than the Framers and that their reforms were so urgently needed that traditional American notions of the role of government had to be cast aside. The 16th amendment paved the way for the federal government to scrutinize every part of people's lives. The powers wielded by the IRS are the antithesis of the ideals of government held by James Madison and the other Framers.

The room in Independence Hall where the Constitution was created is furnished to look like it did in 1787. Of course it is also the room where the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Well worth seeing if you visit Philadelphia.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Been there, used to live in Northern Delaware.
Been a history buff all my life.
The DuPont powder mills along Brandywine Creek are worth a visit as well if you are in that area.

[LonePalm]

Happy Birthday to the Constitution and our own FReeper Constitution Day.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[StoneWall Brigade]

Happy Constitution Day!

[Jacquerie]

How few were left who had seen the republic! - Tacitus.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Constitution explicitly instructs us that the acceptance of foreign government by a federal official is cause for suspicion:

Article 1 Section 9:

No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state

As we have come to expect of the Clintons, Hillary involved herself, as senator and as Secretary of State, in a suspicious arrangement. She was a principal in the Clinton Foundation, a “charity” which accepted donations from foreign governments. I place scare quotes around “charity” on the grounds that a foreign official - heading the State Department, no less - has no business being anywhere near accepting money from any foreign government. Let alone multiple foreign governments.

After all, the business of the State Department is to negotiate and deal with foreign governments on behalf to the American government and the American people. Hillary never asked “Mother may I?” of the House of Representatives, even if you think that Senate confirmation while the Foundation was in place. Anyone with integrity wouldn’t have engaged in the Foundation at all - and certainly would have gotten the consent of Congress for each instance of the Foundation accepting foreign government money.

[cowboyusa]

Going to celebrate it by watching red blooded American Iowa boy Kirk read it in the “Omega Glory”