The delegates to the constitutional convention signed what would become the American Constitution on this date in 1787.<\/p>\n
It would be nearly a year before the Constitution was finally ratified, a\u00a0year and a half\u00a0before the US government officially convened under the Constitution, and more than four years before the Constitution would be amended with the\u00a0Bill of Rights.\u00a0 Still, the 222nd anniversary of the signing at the convention marks the birth of the United States’ governing document.<\/p>\n
The Constitution is more than a topic in High School American Government class to those in the US military.\u00a0 Military members swear (or affirm) that they will “support and defend” and\u00a0“bear true faith and allegiance to”\u00a0not\u00a0the President, nor the flag, nor even the government–they make that pledge to\u00a0the US Constitution.<\/p>\n
Take a moment to read the document that formed our great nation.\u00a0 If you don’t have at least a pocket copy<\/a> (you should), you can download digital copies of the original, or read the more legible text on the official government archive site.\u00a0 Both links are provided on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The delegates to the constitutional convention signed what would become the American Constitution on this date in 1787. It would be nearly a year before the Constitution was finally ratified, a\u00a0year and a half\u00a0before the US government officially convened under the Constitution, and more than four years before the Constitution would be amended with the\u00a0Bill of Rights.\u00a0 Still, the 222nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[82,19,2,45],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-constitution","tag-government","tag-military","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}