IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 640 
Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 11 through 
September 17, 2021, as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 
Mr. MOOLENAAR submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of the week of Sep-
tember 11 through September 17, 2021, as ‘‘Patriot 
Week’’. 
Whereas the events that led to the signing of the Constitution 
of the United States by the delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention on September 17, 1787, have signifi-
cance for every citizen of the United States and are hon-
ored in public schools across the United States on Con-
stitution Day, which is September 17 of each year; 
Whereas the rule of law, the social compact, democracy, lib-
erty, equality, and unalienable human rights are the es-
sential 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 Tub-
man, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Lu-
ther 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 Get-
tysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and 
the ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech delivered by Martin Lu-
ther 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 move-
ment, 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 House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘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; 
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(3) acknowledges, in great reverence to the vic-
tims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, that citi-
zens of the United States should take time to honor 
the first principles, founders, documents, and sym-
bols of their history; 
(4) recognizes that each generation should 
renew the spirit of the United States based on the 
first principles, historical figures, founding docu-
ments, and symbols of the United States; and 
(5) encourages citizens, schools and other edu-
cational 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. 
Æ 
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