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Constitution Day
A Celebration Of Precious Inheritance
On
September 17th of each year, Americans
celebrate Constitution Day. This was the day in
the history of our country when delegates met at
the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in
1787 to sign their names to what would become
the supreme law of our land, the United States
Constitution. It was the event that came to chart
humanity’s new course.
Mankind’s road to Philadelphia was long and
winding, first going through Jerusalem and
Athens. The former supplied us with the principles
upon which our Constitutional Republic rests —
man was created in the image of God and
therefore, all men are created equal and born
free. The Greeks gave us our earliest example of
democratic governance.
And then the path went dark. It was filled with
kings and tyrants who claimed their rights to rule
over their fellow man came from above. Some
men fought against this idea. Armed with the
teachings of the Bible and the Greeks, they
showed man was not made to live under tyrants.
And these fearless men inspired our American
ancestors, our Founding Fathers.
They set a new course, paving the way for the
birth of a new nation by declaring their
independence from the British king and rebelling
against tyranny. Yes, our Founding Fathers risked it
all – everything to take back the inalienable rights
granted to them by their Maker — life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.
They paid for their freedom, and ours, with blood
and sacrifice, and their hard-fought victory in the
Revolutionary War earned them the United States
of America. The document they signed centuries
ago, the Constitution, is its title deed, signaling
ownership not only of the new country but of the
liberties it embodies.
God blessed America with its Founders’ love of
freedom, and now we, as their heirs, must not
squander the gifts they passed down to us by way
of our Constitution, our precious inheritance, the
cherished document asserting human liberty
across the world and for all times. Defend the
Constitution. It belongs to you. Stand firm for
freedom, and commit to keeping the torch of
freedom, the flame of liberty burning bright.
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