Question: What is Constitution Day?

Just over eleven years after declaring independence from England thirty nine men from different states and backgrounds signed a document that changed the course of not only the history of a new nation but began a ripple that has spread out around the world. This ripple was the wave of an idea, that all men had the right to govern themselves and responsibility for their liberty. This wave challenged forever more the concept that certain people had the right to rule over others. No, God gave to all men the heavenly and eternal right to choose their own path.

And these, our Founding Fathers codified in the Supreme Law of the Land our freedom. They codified the people's responsibility to maintain the law. They gave us a limited government to protect us from tyrants they knew would come and would take away our freedom but left the people as the guarantor of the Constitution, the people and their representative they would select.

July 4, 1976 America declared itself free. September 17, 1787 America established that foundation of this freedom. September 17, 2007 is the day we can remember this Constitution, the day each and every one of us can say "I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," not only today but every day.

(Contributed by George Sweeney)

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