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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 311 

Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 11 through 

September 17 as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 

Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. KENNEDY) submitted the following 

resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing support for the designation of the week of 

September 11 through September 17 as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 

Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution 

of the United States by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have significance for every citizen of the United States and are honored in public schools across the United States on Constitution Day, which is September 17 of each year; 

Whereas the rule of law, the social compact, democracy, liberty, equality, and unalienable human rights are the essential values upon which the United States flourishes; 

Whereas diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the 

United States, and the motto inscribed on the Great Seal 

of the United States, ‘‘E pluribus unum’’, Latin for ‘‘out 


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of many, one’’, symbolizes that individuals in the United 

States from all walks of life are unified by shared values; 

Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable individuals 

such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, 

John Marshall, George Washington, Elizabeth Cady 

Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison 

founded or advanced the United States; 

Whereas the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of 

the United States, the Declaration of Sentiments and 

Resolutions signed in Seneca Falls, New York, the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and 

the ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., express sentiments that have advanced 

liberty in the United States; and 

Whereas the Bennington (’76) flag, the Betsy Ross flag, the 

current flag of the United States, the flag of the women’s 

suffrage movement, the Union (Fort Sumter) flag, the 

Gadsden flag, and the flags of the States are physical 

symbols of the history of the United States: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) supports the designation of the week of Sep3 tember 11 through September 17 as ‘‘Patriot 

4 Week’’; 

5 (2) recognizes that understanding the history of 

6 the United States and the first principles of the 

7 United States is indispensable to the survival of the 

8 United States as a free people; 


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1 (3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the vic2 tims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, that citi3 zens of the United States should take time to honor 

4 the first principles, founders, documents, and sym5 bols of their history; 

6 (4) recognizes that each generation should 

7 renew the spirit of the United States based on the 

8 first principles, historical figures, founding docu9 ments, and symbols of the United States; and 

10 (5) encourages citizens, schools and other edu11 cational institutions, and Federal, State, and local 

12 governments and their agencies to recognize and 

13 participate in Patriot Week by honoring, celebrating, 

14 and promoting the study of the history of the United 

15 States so that all people of the United States may 

16 offer the reverence that is due to the free republic. 

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