President Matassa proclaims Constitution Week

Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa has proclaimed the week of September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week in Ascension Parish.

According to the proclamation, the Constitution of the United States of America, the guardian of our liberties, embodies the principle of representative government in a republic dedicated to the rule of law. September 17, 2019 marks the two-hundred-and-thirty-second anniversary of the framing of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention.

It is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to this magnificent document and its memorable anniversary, and to the patriotic celebrations which will commemorate it, and Public Law 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America designating September 17 through 23 as Constitution Week.

"I ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals the framers of the constitution had in 1787 by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to us through this guardian of our liberties," President Matassa said.

Contributed by Ascension Parish Government