Constitution Week 2024

Celebrate Constitution Week with Milk River Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.

This year Constitution Week is Sept. 16 through 23, and Constitution Day is Tuesday, Sept. 17. The week is celebrated annually to commemorate it's history, importance and bring attention to how it still serves us today.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially enacted Constitution Day on Aug. 2, 1956. A Congressional Resolution was petitioned by The Daughters of the American Revolution.

The purpose of Constitution Week is to:

Emphasize citizens' responsibilities for protecting and defending the Constitution.

Inform people that the Constitution is the basis for America's great heritage and the foundation for our way of life.

Encourage the study of the historical events which led to the framing of the Constitution in September 1787.

Constitution Week Proclamation Signed By Glasgow Mayor Karst

Whereas, September 17, 2024 marks the two hundred and thirty seventh anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention; and

Whereas, it is fitting and proper to officially recognize this magnificent document and the anniversary of its creation; and

Whereas, it is fitting and proper to officially recognize the patriotic celebrations which will commemorate the occasion; and

Whereas, public law 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of American designating September 17th through September 23rd as constitution week;

NOW THEREFORE, I Mayor Rod Karst of the City Glasgow, MT do hereby proclaim September 17th through September 23rd, 2024 to be

CONSTITUTION WEEK in Glasgow, MT and ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals the Framers of the Constitution had in 1787.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and

Caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the City of Glasgow, MT on

This Ninth Day of September in the year of our Lord Two

Thousand Twenty-Four and of the Independence of the United States

of American the two hundred and forty eighth and the State of Montana

/s/ Rod Karst

Rod Karst, Mayor