Title: Expressing support for the recognition of Constitution Week.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution (1) expresses support for the recognition of Constitution Week; and (2) encourages schools and universities to include, in a grade appropriate manner, lessons explaining the history and importance of the Constitution.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1119 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1119

      Expressing support for the recognition of Constitution Week.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2020

Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Fulcher, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Banks, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Roy, Mr. Griffith, 
     Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Perry, Mr. 
  DesJarlais, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. 
 Schweikert, Mr. Massie, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Norman, Mr. Hice of Georgia, 
 Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mr. Waltz, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Duncan, 
 Mr. McClintock, Mr. Steube, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Cline, Mr. 
Mast, Mr. Graves of Louisiana, Mr. Buck, Mr. Riggleman, Mr. Thompson of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Budd, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Marshall) submitted 
   the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
      Expressing support for the recognition of Constitution Week.

Whereas September 17, 2020, marks the 233d anniversary of the ratification of 
        the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional 
        Convention;
Whereas the Founders of the Nation signed the historic document with the consent 
        of the people and the legislatures of the States;
Whereas the Constitution is the source of all government powers while at the 
        same time defines limitations on the government in order to protect the 
        liberties and freedoms of citizens;
Whereas this historic document has ensured that liberty, freedom, and 
        unalienable rights remain supreme in the United States;
Whereas the Daughters of the American Revolution petitioned Congress to set 
        aside September 17 through 23 annually to be dedicated for the 
        observance of Constitution Week; and
Whereas a resolution was adopted by the House of Representatives and signed into 
        public law in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the observance 
        of Constitution Week: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) expresses support for the recognition of Constitution 
        Week, as a time to commemorate America's most important 
        document and to study the events leading up to the framing of 
        the Constitution and the responsibility of citizens to protect 
        and defend the principles enshrined in this document; and
            (2) encourages schools and universities to include, in a 
        grade appropriate manner, lessons explaining the history and 
        importance of the Constitution.
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