What a day to celebrate. September 17 is both Constitution Day and Citizenship. It’s also Citizenship Day. Boo-freaking-yah! We all should get down on our knees and sing praises of gratitude that such men as the Founding Fathers wrote a “roadmap” for our Republic that enshrined our Individual Rights. The Progressive Collectivist Coven is always there nipping at the Rights enshrined in our Founding document and our job is to be ever vigilant. Sing Huzzah and Thank God.

We have all been a little listless lately, alternating with shades of fury, over the religious/philosophical assassination of Charlie Kirk. Mr. Kirk loved God and Faith and America and History so I think celebrating Constitution Day would make him proud. The document enumerates our Rights, but it is not just a list, like a shopping list. Check, check and check:

Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the constitutional protections we enjoy.

But on this Constitution Day, Americans should understand that the U.S. Constitution is more than a list of rights like freedom of speech and due process. The Constitution framed and established a government that could be “administered by men over men” without an inherent tendency toward tyranny.

The Constitution vested the three branches with the necessary legislative, executive, and judicial powers for an effective government. But at the same time, it obliged the government to control itself, as James Madison discussed in Federalist 51. The Founders embedded ideas like checks and balances, separation of powers, and federalism into the Constitution.

You have read those stories, haven’t you? The stories where some spoiled American gets arrested in some shithold country and then whines because this isn’t how we do it in the United States under The…wait for it…Constitution. The arrested tourons don’t understand that no other country has Individual Rights enshrined rights enumerated the way we do. Not even in Merry Old England:

The birthplace of the Magna Carta doesn’t have a single written constitution. Instead, it has a system of laws, conventions, and institutions developed over centuries. But a simple majority in the two houses of Parliament can overturn or replace any law—making the U.K.’s liberty and justice dependent on having the right government in place.

Sadly, the current British government, elected with only around a third of the vote, has no qualms about arresting people for engaging in speech it deems offensive, or for silently praying too close to an abortion clinic.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, of course, guarantees that Congress cannot pass laws that limit Americans’ rights of free speech and free exercise of religion—a guarantee that has since been extended to the states. Laws and regulations that violate this core constitutional principle have generally proven short-lived, as courts routinely overturn them as unconstitutional.

The British government actually warns people about what they say in public or put on social media. Free speech, what!

We are the luckiest country in the world.

An American tells a Briton people in the U.S. have freedom of speech. He says he could go up to the White House and shout: "Go to Hell, J.D. Vance!"

The Briton answers: Oh? We also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Ten Downing Street and yell "Go to Hell, J.D. Vance!" https://t.co/PZQk0rlze9

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) August 13, 2025

Having an enshrined and tested Constitution is a blessing of liberty of which almost none can boast.

Remember that we have it super-cool here in the United States. The Constitution won’t necessarily protect you abroad. Remember that we are the world’s cool kids. Be proud but don’t be boastful.

The oldest and shortest written constitution in the world was signed 238 years ago today.

With their signatures, the Founding Fathers laid the foundation for the most prosperous and free nation in history – the United States of America.

Happy Constitution Day
God bless… pic.twitter.com/7m19uWKvyR

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) September 17, 2025

Remember that it took more than a dozen years after 1776 before we began to get The Constitution right and work “toward a more perfect union”. Thank you to Gouvernor Morris and the Committee on Style.

Be grateful every day. Happy Constitution Day!

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