SR-72, As Adopted by Senate, August 18, 2009

            Senator Bishop offered the following resolution:

Senate RResolution No. 72

 ____A resolution designating September 11- to September 17, 2009, as Michigan Patriots Week.

Whereas, tThe history and First Principles of the United States of America should serve as the cornerstone of civic education., and iIn great reverence to the victims of the 9/-11 attacks, we acknowledge that American cCitizens must take time to honor the principles, founders, documents, and symbols of their social history; and,

Whereas, Tthe events that lead to the signing symbolic adoption of Tthe Constitution of the United States of America by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, should behave significancet to for every American and are honored in public schools across the nation on September 17 as Constitution Day; and,

Whereas, Revolution, the rRule of lLaw, the the sSocial cCompact, eGender Equality, uUnalienable rRights, and Llimited Ggovernment are the First pPrinciples upon which the great United States America was founded was built;and flourishes; and,

Whereas, eExceptional, visionary, and indispensable Americans such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Adams, John Marshall, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr.unior, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Anthony, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison served the United States as visionariesfounded and advanced the United States; and,

Whereas, tThe Bennington Flag, the work of Betsy Ross, the United StatesAmerican Flag, the Suffragist Flag, the Union Flag, the Gadsden Flag, and the flag of the sState of Michigan are key physical symbols of American history that should be studied and remembered by each American Ccitizen; now, therefore, be it

Whereas, we mark the first day of Patriots Week, symbolically September 11, by honoring the plight of those who fought in the American Revolution and the great manifesto that is the Declaration of Independence, and,

Resolved by the Senate, That we hereby designate September 11- to September 17, 2009, as Michigan Patriots Week, symbolically beginning this celebration on September 9-11.  and concluding on Constitution Day. We urge the citizens, government agencies, municipalities, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and schools of the sState of Michigan to recognize and participate in this extended holiday by celebratinghonoring and celebrating the First Principles, key historical figures, founding documents, and symbols of American exceptionalhistoryAmerica [in accordance with the schedule developed by Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Michael Warren] so that they may offer the reverence that is due to our free republic,; and be it further

Resolved, That the copies of this resolution be transmitted to the Michigan Council for Social Studies, the Michigan Center for Civic Education, the State Board of Education, Michigan public and nonpublic schools, the SState Bar of Michigan, and the Oakland County Bar Association, the Oakland County Circuit Court, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, and Governor Jennifer M. Granholm.