“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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... Done... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.” —George Washington and the delegates

Two hundred and twenty years ago today, this Nation embarked on a grand experiment. While there are problems that threaten that experiment;for the moment, it's still working as our forefathers had hoped. If that grand foray into the unknown fails, it will be due to OUR lack, not theirs. WE are the ones that strayed from the wise path they left us to follow.

I believe that this day should be made a day of National reflection on where we have been and where we may be heading. Just maybe there is yet time to change the course we are heading.

The Father of our Nation warned us to beware of what is happening in this latter day; with contemplation on the sage advice of those that went before us, we can still avoid the final dissolution, but time grows short.

“Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting an inviolable.” —George Washington, First Inaugural Address

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