On Constitution Day, honor our chief governing document as one of history's highest political achievements
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Constitution Day means we should honor our chief governing document as one of history’s highest political achievements. The place to start is by reading it.
Allen Mendenhall is associate dean and Grady Rosier Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, where he directs the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy. Visit his website at AllenMendenhall.com.
The Constitution, if it is a symbol, stands for the proposition that every human being within its jurisdiction enjoys rights that the government exists to defend, and against which the government may not transgress. This is a beautiful, powerful concept, one that has the power to unite disparate peoples in pursuit of better lives for themselves and their posterity.