The members of the Samuel King Chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) are pleased to be partnering with the Guthrie Public Library to share in the celebration of the signing and ratification of the Constitution that occurred May 29, 1790. Constitution Week was officially enacted on August 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from a congressional resolution petitioned by the daughters of the American Revolution. The annual observance is from September 17 to September 23.
Guthrie Public Library has so graciously allowed us to decorate their windows with posters explaining the articles and amendments written in the Constitution. We encourage the public to come to the library and browse through their shelves while visiting our display. We also encourage everyone to find a constitution on-line and read through it as it is the foundation for our government.
The following is a constitution tidbit: Constitution Minute – “We the People” The Declaration of Independence declared that “All men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” and stated that the colonies were forming a new country. Until the people of these colonies declared themselves to be independent of the monarchy in Great Britain, they did not have the right to even frame the Preamble of the Constitution or even consider writing a constitution for a new country, the United States of America. Only a free people endowed by their Creator with these attributes could be “We the People” forming a “more perfect Union” to create a government that would serve them. Thus, when we recite the Preamble to the Constitution, it is important to affirm we are “We the People.” And, as a free people, we are responsible for our own government. Each day invites us to embrace this responsibility. Every engagement with our community is an exercise of both our freedom and our responsibility Preamble to the Constitution '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.