IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 58 
Supporting the designation of the week of September 11 to September 17 
as ‘‘Patriot Week’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2015 
Mr. BISHOP of Michigan (for himself and Mr. TROTT) 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 indis-
pensable 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 prin-
ciples, 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 Constitu-
tional Convention on September 17, 1787, have signifi-
cance 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. Madi-
son, 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 ad-
vanced 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 sym-
bols of United States history and freedom that should be 
studied and remembered by each citizen: Now, therefore, 
be it 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Patriot Week’’; 
(2) recognizes that each generation ought to 
renew the spirit of the Nation based on the first 
principles, historical figures, founding documents, 
and symbols of the United States; and 
(3) 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 and cele-
brating so that all may offer the reverence that is 
due to the free republic. 
Æ 
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