Constitution Day is one of our country’s most overlooked holidays, but Sept. 17 should not go unnoticed. The foundational principle of our governing charter is at risk of being forgotten, with disastrous consequences for the American experiment. Recalling it is essential to our national future.
With the distance of 234 years, it’s easy to forget the revolutionary nature of the Constitution. Like every country that came before, America’s Founders asked themselves a simple question: Where does power come from? Unlike every country that came before, they gave a radical answer, summed up in the Constitution’s first three words: “We the people.”
Read the rest of this blog post on the website The Hill at https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/572514-a-question-for-constitution-day
Doug DeVos is chairman of the National Constitution Center and co-chairman of Amway. This piece originally appeared in The Hill.
