Constitution Day: Happy Birthday, America!

Constitution Day: Happy Birthday, America!
Scene at the signing of the Constitution of the United States on Sept. 17, 1787, depicted in a 1940 painting by Howard Chandler Christy. Public domain
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No fireworks will light up the night sky. Few stores will offer special holiday discounts. Schools, government agencies, and businesses will remain open. Neighbors are unlikely to mark the occasion with backyard barbeques, and there will be no three-day weekends or quick vacations out of town.

In fact, many Americans may not even know that September 17 is Constitution Day.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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