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We celebrate that Constitution secures rights today
By Paul | September 17, 2009
Copyright the Chillicothe Gazette
For four long months in the summer of 1787, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention debated a document that eventually would become the U.S. Constitution.
On Sept. 17 of that year, 39 of the delegates signed the document that took so much work to draft and ratify. As part of our American tradition, it’s our duty as citizens to know and understand what the Constitution says and stands for. But that can be tricky. Some say the Constitution is a “living document” that should change throughout time, while others argue the “original intent” of the framers always should be upheld. Regardless of your view on that, today is a day to honor the document that stands as the supreme law of the United States of America.
It set forth the three branches of government — legislative, executive and judicial — and also set up state’s rights. Those who created it also gave us a way to change it.
Perhaps most importantly, though, is the preamble, which says:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
It does not grant or prohibit specific authority, but merely states in general terms the intentions of those who created it. Those intentions, like much else in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, have been the subject of much debate.
One thing, however, is not in debate. Without the Constitution, the rights of individuals would not be secure.
That is what we can celebrate today.
– Chillicothe Gazette
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