BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ĐÓ°É´«Ă˝ - ECPv6.16.5.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ĐÓ°É´«Ă˝ X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ĐÓ°É´«Ă˝ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230918 DTSTAMP:20230915T134530Z CREATED:20230914T151349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T134530Z UID:10000045-1694908800-1694995199@amberton.edu SUMMARY:Constitution and Citizenship Day DESCRIPTION:September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.  This day commemorates the September 17\, 1787\, signing of the United States Constitution. \nWritten in 1787\, ratified in 1788\, and in operation since 1789\, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government.  Its first three words – “We the People” – affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens.  For over two hundred years\, the Constitution has remained in force because its framers wisely separated and balanced governmental powers to safeguard the interests of majority rule and minority rights\, of liberty and equality\, and of the federal and state governments. \nSince 1789\, the Constitution has evolved through amendments to meet the changing needs of a nation now profoundly different from the eighteenth-century world in which its creators lived. To encourage all Americans to learn more about the Constitution\, Congress in 1956 established Constitution Week\, to begin each year on September 17\, the date in 1787 when delegates to the Convention signed the Constitution. URL:/event/constitution-citizenship-day/ LOCATION:Online\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR