Today is Constitution Day, the 239th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. President Trump yesterday issued a Proclamation (full text) declaring September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week. The President's Proclamation reads in part:
Guided by the most righteous political document ever conceived, America remains the greatest force for good in the history of the world. 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....
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.
On my watch, the weaponization of Government has ended, and America is once again upholding its constitutional principles enshrined at the founding of our Republic....
