Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Fort GreeneVille DAR Sponsors Library Display for Constitution Week

Karen Burkett, Mary Jane Dietrich, Helen Wright, Susie Brewer, Linda Riley, Shirley Hughes, Caroline Petitjean and Debbie Nisonger
Fort GreeneVille Chapter, DAR is sponsoring the display cabinet at the Greenville Library for the month of September. The display is commemorating Constitution Week. Constitution Week is Sept. 17 - 23.

At the time of the ratification of the Constitution, the population of the United States was only 4 million. Today the population exceeds 300 million. From the time of it’s signing the Constitution has only changed 27 times which includes the first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. There are two ways to amend the Constitution, which are outlined in Article V. There has been more than 10,000 amendments proposed in Congress since 1789, but fewer than one percent have received enough support to go through the constitutional ratification process.

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