On September 17th each year, we celebrate the United States Constitution!
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Signing the United States Constitution
September 17th is celebrated in America each year in recognition of the signing of the US Constitution by 39 individuals on that day in 1787.
In an attempt to solve the flaws in the Articles of Confederation, in the late spring of 1787, 55 delegates met at the State House in Philadelphia. (This building was known as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 11 years earlier.) Here, these men drafted a new form of government.
The Constitution was signed on September 17th and was then sent to the states to be ratified. It became the law of the land on June 21, 1788.
The Framers of the Constitution deliberately incorporated many Biblical principles in the Constitution, so it is not surprising that they also openly acknowledged God’s hand in the creation of the final document. For example, Alexander Hamilton said:
For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it the finger of the Almighty Hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the Revolution.
