Happy Constitution Day!

Celebrating the great charter of the American Republic.

Today is September 17th, Constitution Day, celebrating the date that the proposed Constitution was signed by delegates at the federal convention. While many of the delegates had a sense of history about them, I often wonder if any of them thought that the document they had crafted through often intense deliberation could have possibly survived as long as it has. There is some evidence that few of the delegates, at the time it was signed, were fully content with the document as it had been contrived. The reverence for the Constitution would come as the delegates and others who supported it fought for its ratification and as it weathered early challenges to its design, proving capable of establishing a lasting government over a free society.

Now, it is the longest active political charter in the world, having continued to provide the foundation for representative governance over a country that has grown in every conceivable way. If we remain a nation of freemen after so much time has passed, it is because the design of the Constitution has proven wise and sound in navigating the realities of human nature and the trade-offs of governing a large republic.

When we first launched the Freemen News-Letter a year ago today, it was intended as a specific statement of purpose and vision. We believe that the fortunes of the American Union rise and fall with the strength of the U.S. Constitution and the ideals it is founded upon, and we view the Constitution as the foundation, the keystone, and the centrifugal force of our efforts to highlight and communicate the first principles of free society.

To highlight this reality and to celebrate Constitution Day, we will be publishing a host of articles about the Constitution today and throughout the week. While we have moved to a paid subscriber model at the Freemen News-Letter, these articles will be offered for free to highlight these important perspectives on this far too under-celebrated holiday.

We encourage you to read and consider the things we will be publishing throughout the day and this week, and to let your heart swell with gratitude for the incredible form of government we have in America. And we would also ask for your support as we begin year two of our humble endeavor by becoming a paid subscriber and by offering a donation to the Freemen Foundation.

Thank you so much, and may God continue to bless the American Republic.

-Justin Stapley, Editor in Chief