Happy Anniversary

WE THE PEOPLE:
On this day, September 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was signed by thirty-nine brave patriots.

The U. S. Constitution is the oldest constitution still in active use in the world today and is the oldest Federal constitution in existence. Let us once again start to read it and study it so we have a better understanding of the Miracle that took place through that hot summer in Philadelphia 1787.

"On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon." George Washington

"Governments, in general, have been the result of force, of fraud, and accident. After a period of six thousand years has elapsed since the creation, the United States exhibit to the world the first instance, as far as we can learn, of a nation, unattacked by external force, unconvulsed by domestic insurrections, assembling voluntarily, deliberating fully, and deciding calmly concerning that system of government under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live." James Wilson

"I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance as the framing of the Constitution. . . should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being." Benjamin Franklin