Happy Constitution Day!
September 17, 2013
I would be remiss if I did not mention that today is Constitution Day. On this day in 1787 39 members of the Constitutional Convention signed the newly minted Constitution, setting off a two year debate which brought us the Federalist Papers and culminated in the adoption of the United States Constitution.
I would like to wish everyone a happy Constitution Day, enjoy it while you still can.
PS, if you have not read the Federalist Papers you owe it to yourself and to your nation to do so. These papers shine a light on how the framers felt about the role of the Federal Government, and this is something too many Americans do not understand any more.
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America's Watchtower 
I don’t know what percentage of American adults have read any of the Federalist Papers; but I would guess it is in the single digits.
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The percentage is not very high, I would guess. And to be honest I didn’t until a couple of years ago. After starting this blog about six years ago I realized that I needed to educate myself on American history if I wanted to be credible and that is what I am still trying to do. I wish others would as well.
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Reblogged this on Brittius.com.
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Thanks again my friend!
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You’re welcome.
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I never read the Federalist & Anti-Federalist Papers until very recently. Heck, I never read the whole Constitution until recently. I am always flabbergasted when people say the Constitution is too complicated for the average person to understand. I just finished a discussion with a ‘lawyer’ who holds that belief.
I am also flabbergasted when people say only Constitutional scholars and judges can ‘interpret’ Constitution. The Constitution is not ambiguous. Any vagueness is explained by the Founders in their other writings. The Constitution is not subject to ‘opinion.’ The ONLY legal, valid, legitimate, Constitutional way to understand the ONE meaning of the Constitution is by the actual text, the explanations of the Founders, and the understanding of the meaning by the ratifiers. The meaning of the Constitution does NOT change based on changes in society or opinions of judges. The ‘living document’ crap was cooked up by people who wanted to do things CLEARLY prohibited by the Constitution. I am NOT saying the Constitution should never change, of course it must to stay relevant. I AM saying those changes MUST be made by the People through amendments and NOT rulings by SCOTUS.
The Constitution is Supreme Law and the foundation of our government. NO structure can last if the foundation is not firm, unyielding, unchanging (except by the process provided in the Constitution), set in stone. The situation our Country is in now, is a direct result of treating our binding, set in stone Constitution as if were only a set of guidelines or suggestions written on a chalkboard.
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Well said Laura! The Constitution is not hard to understand at all if a person takes the time to read it, but if they have any doubts the Federalist Papers should clear it up for them. People are lazy, that is the problem.
Thomas Jefferson stated that one generation of people should not bind the next with its laws and that is why the Constitution includes a way to change it. The Constitution is only a living document in that it provides the means necessary to change it if the people feel parts of it are no longer relevant and that is through amendment and not the court system.
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Thanks for the reminder Steve. To those of you who not read the constitution you owe it to yourselves to do so. When you read the Bill of Rights you will better understand what the left wants to deny you by either legislating away or through judicial fiat.
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You are welcome and you nailed it, every single American owes it to themselves to read the Constitution and all the founding documents as well as everything the Founders wrote about it. Only then can they understand what America is supposed to stand for.
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