Constitution Day
The basis of our form of government, the document our President has called "fundamentally flawed" and spawned the longest continuous democracy (democratic republic) in modern history.
In their wisdom, the founders crafted not a "pure" democracy, which would be little more than chaos, but a republic that, with it's "warts," has produced a society to which people the world over long to come and enjoy the freedoms, economic, financial, political and social, protected by those words and ideas 222 years later.
Even as some detour around the methods of amendment built into the document to circumvent the protections embedded therein, we continue to honor the strength of that document, the the foresight and wisdom of the men who pondered, debated, fought for, gave their lives and fortunes and ultimately wrote these sacred words.
"We are all in the same boat on a stormy sea and
we owe each other a terrible loyalty." - G. K. Chesterson
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