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[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 699 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 699

  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 16, 2020

   Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted the following 
               resolution; which considered and agreed to

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                               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 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 flag (commonly known as the ``'76 flag''), the Betsy Ross 
        flag, the current flag of the United States, the flag of the women's 
        suffrage movement, the Union flag (commonly known as the ``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
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) supports the designation of the week of September 11 
        through September 17 as ``Patriot Week'';
            (2) recognizes that understanding the history of the United 
        States and the first principles of the United States is 
        indispensable to the survival of the United States as a free 
        people;
            (3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the victims of the 
        September 11, 2001, attacks, that citizens of the United States 
        should take time to honor the first principles, founders, 
        documents, and symbols of their history;
            (4) recognizes that each generation should renew the spirit 
        of the United States based on the first principles, historical 
        figures, founding documents, and symbols of the United States; 
        and
            (5) encourages citizens, schools and other educational 
        institutions, and Federal, State, and local governments and 
        their agencies to recognize and participate in Patriot Week by 
        honoring, celebrating, and promoting the study of the history 
        of the United States so that all people of the United States 
        may offer the reverence that is due to the free republic.
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