By Catherine Salgado

Written by Catherine Salgado

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President Donald Trump marked the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution (Sept.17, 1787) in this America 250th year by encouraging “teachers, school administrators, and State and local leaders to educate America’s pupils on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship under our constitutional order” to ensure “a more perfect Union.”

Modern lefties trash the Constitution and never shut up about its flaws (although many of them don’t seem to have read the document, as, for instance, they are unaware that the word “slavery” is not in it and that it never restricted voting based on sex or race). We must counter that propaganda by reading and understanding the Constitution ourselves, holding our politicians to the standard it sets, and educating younger Americans on its strengths and remarkable originality. Trump rightly called the Constitution “the most righteous political document ever conceived” that made America “the greatest force for good in the history of the world.”

Trump praised the Constitutional Convention’s Founding Fathers who “assembled at Independence Hall to summon the courage of the American Spirit and boldly proclaim, in a single governing document, their resolve to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for our national defense, ensure the welfare of all our citizens, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

The president enthused, “The 39 patriots who signed it, many of whom had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for Independence just years before during the Revolution, immortalized the essential principles of the rule of law, the separation of powers, and federalism as the cornerstone of our Republic.”

Thanks to the Constitution and the Bills of Rights that the Founders added soon after initial ratification, “Americans enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal justice under the law, and the Second Amendment — among other unalienable rights — hard won by the selfless men and women who have fought, bled, and died across the generations to preserve them for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed,” Trump stated. “These rights come with solemn responsibilities, and since the dawn of our Republic, love of country, devotion to liberty, dedication to the rule of law, and a steadfast passion for preserving that inheritance have been the obligations of every dutiful American citizen.”

As Ronald Reagan reminded us, each generation has to fight anew to preserve liberty. Each decade brings a new domestic or international threat to the constitutional rights we enjoy. Trump referred to this too:

“These values now face a new threat:  a rise in anti-American rhetoric from communists and far-left radicals, who seek to divide our communities, rob our children of their futures, and poison the minds of our citizens through slanderous fabrications of our great American story.  Where our Constitution recognizes rights as gifts of Almighty God that no earthly power may take away, socialism and communism treat them as favors of the State to be rationed and revoked, demanding total submission to a movement that is only capable of bringing poverty, persecution, and ruin wherever it has been tried.  These failed ideologies do not make life more affordable or prosperous — they destroy opportunity, create hardship, and leave working families with less.  That same contempt for our Constitution took root at home under the previous administration, which turned its power against the very citizens it was sworn to serve and let our institutions rewrite the very story of America itself.”

Trump concluded with both a challenge and a promise: “I will never allow the dignity of our proud national heritage to be destroyed, and so long as I am President, America will continue to stand for freedom.  Together, we will safeguard our God-given rights, our Constitution, and our glorious way of life for generations to come.”

Benjamin Franklin is said to have looked at the image of the sun on George Washington’s chair at the Constitutional Convention and said he was glad to recognize it was a rising sun. May this Constitution Day also mark a new dawn of patriotic fervor and freedom in America.

-Catherine Salgado

Catherine Salgado is a contributor for PJ Media. She also writes for The Rogue Review, Media Research Center, and her Substack Pro Deo et Libertate. She received the Andrew Breitbart MVP award for August 2021 from The Rogue Review for her journalism.

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