Today's Holiday

For John, BLUF:  We would be a lot worse off if we were still under the Articles of Confederation.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Constitution Day

Here is the basics, from Wikipedia:

The law establishing the present holiday was created in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill of 2004.  Before this law was enacted, the holiday was known as "Citizenship Day" and celebrated on the third Sunday in May.  In addition to renaming the holiday "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day," the act mandates that all publicly funded educational institutions, and all federal agencies, provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on that day.  In May 2005, the United States Department of Education announced the enactment of this law and that it would apply to any school receiving federal funds of any kind.

Learning about and appreciating our US Constitution is important for the exercise of Citizenshiop.

I wonder what local public schools did today to teach about our US Constitution.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff