HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamation 2024-05 2024 Constitution Week Sept 17-23
PROCLAMATION
No. 2024-05
Declaring September 17th – 23rd as Constitution Week
WHEREAS, September 17, 2024, marks the two hundred and thirty- seventh anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the
Constitutional Convention; and
WHEREAS, It is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to this magnificent document and its memorable anniversary and to the patriotic celebrations
which will commemorate the occasion; and
WHEREAS, Public Law 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America designating September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I Jerry Merrill, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Rexburg, do hereby proclaim the week of September 17 through 23 as
Constitution Week
And ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals the Framers of the Constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties
remembering that lost rights may never be regained.
ADOPTED by the City of Rexburg, State of Idaho, on this 4th day of September 2024.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Rexburg to be affixed this 4th day of September of the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four.
APPROVED:
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Jerry Merrill, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Deborah Lovejoy, City Clerk