September 17-23 is National Constitution Week in the United States. Yesterday, September 17, was National Constitution Day.
“It was officially enacted on August 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a congressional resolution petitioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The purpose of the observance week was to promote study and education about the constitution which was originally adopted by the American Congress of the Confederation on September 17, 1787.” (Quoted from the Apples for the Teacher website.)
If it has been a while since you read it, consider fixing the omission this week. Click here for an easy-to-read online version. Click here for a very good audio edition read by David Currie, who was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School at the time. Also available for free download.
For more information and to read four lectures on the Constitution, visit Justin Taylor’s incredibly informative blog “U.S. Constitution 101.”
Fun Fridays – September 15, 2023
From here in New Mexico, the irony of timing is breathtaking. The governor declared a public health emergency because of ‘gun violence’, and tried to suspend both the US and state constitutions by forbidding the carriage of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.
Didn’t last long, and a federal judge (a Biden appointee) was quite scathing in granting an injunction. One does not rule, he said, by the whim of executive fiat.
The week ‘fore Constitution Week
it did get quite confusin’
when the governor did seek
to suspend the Constitution.
She claimed it wasn’t absolute,
and neither was her oath.
Perhaps she tried this as a cute
way to get more votes,
playing the young rebel soul
waving populism’s flag,
or maybe she done bought the whole
authoritarian bag,
and figured she just might be seen
as the United States’ first queen.
Thank you, Mr. Laube, for this timely reminder to respect and honor our U.S. Constitution.
Steve, this post is so timely!
Our pastor has just started doing a Bible study with us using the Constitution and Bill of Rights, hand in hand with Scripture. I’m really looking forward to it! I’ve also heard other pastors are doing a similar thing. Clearly, God is telling us something.
My son is annotating and summarizing the Constitution so this is great timing. I shared the links with the others in our homeschooling group. Thank you.
Fascinating. Thank you, Steve!
We the people are very fortunate to live in a country where our rights are clearly documented. Thanks for the link to Justin Taylor’s blog.
I so love and respect that you are drawing our attention to this. My husband and I have led Biblical Citizenship classes through the Patriot Academy. It was shocking to me how little I knew and understood about the constitution the first time I took one of the classes. But learning how much the Founding Fathers were guided by the Word of God increasing it, made me love it all the more.