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Liberty Day

The ultimate goal of Liberty Day is the protection and continuation of American liberties.  Its primary mission is education: to make all citizens aware of the significance and content of both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, in order that we might appreciate the incredible rights and responsibilities to be found in those documents.  In pursuit of this goal, Liberty Day activities throughout the country focus attention on these two crucial documents and events leading up to the founding of the United States.

Liberty Day started as a project to provide booklets and speakers for the schools in the Denver area.   Then other groups in society wanted the booklets.   Boy scouts wanted them, to study for their merit badges.   Immigrants wanted them, to study for the INS citizenship test.  U.S. representatives wanted to give them to constituents at town meetings.   Judges wanted them.  Service group members wanted to give them to their grandchildren.   Every citizen should have a copy of the founding documents.

The basic concern of the Liberty Day  effort is citizenship - that quality in Americans showing them to be sufficiently  aware of and interested in their government to make them competent and responsible self-governing citizens.  When young people, who are the future citizens of this country, expressed  a considerable amount of indifference toward their government, a seemingly legitimate question was raised:   how can such an apathetic  attitude among citizens maintain that degree of alertness required for American self-government?    Over two hundred years ago, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a curious woman asked Ben Franklin, “Sir, what have you given us?”  He answered simply “A republic -- if you can keep it.”  If you can keep it -- that is our challenge today.    Ben Franklin recognized that it was not a certainty.   We have been given freedom.   We have been given liberty.   We have been given self-government.   But can we keep it?   That is the responsibility of every American.

For More Information: www.libertyday.org