Today is a lesser known US holiday. But I believe it's just as important as the Independence Day we celebrate every 4th of July. Today is Constitution Day. Just as important as gaining our independence from England, is the Constitution by which our country is governed.
Our Founding Fathers spent a lot of time and putting a lot of thought into that document. Thousands of soldiers have given the ultimate sacrifice defending the principles of governance laid out in therein. Every soldier, sailor, marine and airman takes an oath to protect and defend our Constitution. Our elected officials swear to govern by the Constitution, and our Supreme Court judges by it.
How did you observe the day? Did you read your copy of the Constitution? If you did read it you may be wondering how we've allowed our elected officials deviate so far from its straightforward simplicity and expanded it to mean things our Founding Fathers never intended.
Maybe it's about time we started teaching our children and grandchildren the Constitution. Public education is lacking in that department and we have no one to blame but ourselves for the deviations from the original intent by our lawmakers.
It's our civic responsibility.
Small government, fiscal responsibility and free markets.
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