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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 

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 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 

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 


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1 United States is indispensable to the survival of the 

2 United States as a free people; 

3 (3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the vic4 tims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, that citi5 zens of the United States should take time to honor 

6 the first principles, founders, documents, and sym7 bols of their history; 

8 (4) recognizes that each generation should 

9 renew the spirit of the United States based on the 

10 first principles, historical figures, founding docu11 ments, and symbols of the United States; and 

12 (5) encourages citizens, schools and other edu13 cational institutions, and Federal, State, and local 

14 governments and their agencies to recognize and 

15 participate in Patriot Week by honoring, celebrating, 

16 and promoting the study of the history of the United 

17 States so that all people of the United States may 

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

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