Constitution Day
-by Mimi Rothschild
Constitution Day is celebrated in the United States on September 17th, since it was on September 17th, 1787 that thirty-nine brave men signed the original document. Now, 221 years later, we can celebrate this special day in our homeschool activities.
Read the Preamble of the Constitution to younger students and with older ones. It’s beautiful!
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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.”
Here’s the list of things the framers of the Constitution wanted it to do:
• form a more perfect union (make our country the best it can be)
• establish justice (make sure our country is fair and just)
• insure domestic tranquility (make sure we have peace in our country)
• provide for the common defense (defend our country against enemies)
• promote the general welfare (help people live well)
• secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity (keep freedom for ourselves and our children and their children on into the future)
Help your children say these things in their own words and draw pictures or write sentences describing these goals. Then discuss whether people who did these things for their country would be following the Word of God.
2 Samuel 23:3b-4 reminds us that “He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.”
Romans 13:4 says about the people in the government, “He is God’s servant to do you good.”
Finish with a prayer of thanksgiving for the Constitution!