On this day (June 21) in 1788, the United States Constitution officially became the foundational law of our nation as New Hampshire was the ninth out of 13 original states to ratify it.
The Constitution, while it was subsequently improved by the Bill of Rights and some of the other amendments, presented from its first inception a brilliant achievement in human history.
George Washington, who served both as president of the Constitutional Convention and then the first U.S. president under the Constitution, summed up the document’s foundational ethos: “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”
Too many American politicians and bureaucrats since then have ignored or attacked the Constitution, yet it survived. And if we return to following this founding law of our Republic, we will flourish again as never before.
As Alexander Hamilton said, “A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.”
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Author: Catherine Salgado
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