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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 12 

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17 

as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 24, 2017 

Mr. BISHOP of Michigan (for himself, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. 

WALBERG, Mr. TROTT, and Mr. MITCHELL) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 

Government Reform 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 

to September 17 as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 

Whereas Congress recognizes that understanding United 

States history and the Nation’s first principles are indispensable to the survival of our republic as a free people; 

Whereas in great reverence to the victims of the September 

11, 2001, attacks, Congress acknowledges that United 

States citizens should take time to honor the first principles, founders, documents, and symbols of their history; 

Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution 

of the United States by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, have significance for every United States citizen and are honored in 


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public schools across the Nation on September 17 of each 

year as Constitution Day; 

Whereas the revolution, the rule of law, social compact, 

equality, unalienable rights, and limited government are 

the first principles upon which the Nation was founded 

and flourishes; 

Whereas exceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans 

such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, 

John Marshall, George Washington, Elizabeth Cady 

Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick 

Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, 

and James Madison founded or advanced the United 

States; 

Whereas the Declaration of Independence, Marbury v. Madison, the resolution of Congress of September 28, 1787, 

submitting the Constitution to the several States, the 

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 

the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, 

the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, 

the ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech, the Bill of Rights, the 

original unamended Constitution, and the 9th and 10th 

amendments to the United States Constitution are key 

documents that embody the first principles and have advanced United States liberty; and 

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

current United States Flag, the Suffragist Flag, the 

Union (Fort Sumter) Flag, the Gadsden Flag, and the 

flags of the several States are fundamental physical symbols of United States history and freedom that should be 

studied and remembered by each citizen: Now, therefore, 

be it 


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1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That Congress— 

3 (1) supports the designation of ‘‘Patriot Week’’; 

4 (2) recognizes that each generation ought to 

5 renew the spirit of the Nation based on the first 

6 principles, historical figures, founding documents, 

7 and symbols of the United States; and 

8 (3) encourages citizens, schools and other edu9 cational institutions, and Federal, State, and local 

10 governments and their agencies, to recognize and 

11 participate in ‘‘Patriot Week’’ by honoring and cele12 brating so that all may offer the reverence that is 

13 due to the free republic. 

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