[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 376 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 376


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 11 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

                                Received

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
    Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding support for the 
                     recognition of a Liberty Day.

Whereas our rights and liberties are rooted in the cherished documents that gave 
        birth to our nation, those being the Declaration of Independence and the 
        United States Constitution with its Bill of Rights;
Whereas the patriot James Madison, fourth President of the United States, was 
        the major author of the Virginia Plan, the model and the basis for that 
        United States


Constitution that emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1787;

Whereas James Madison kept detailed written records of the debates and 
        compromises that were in integral part of that Convention of 1787, which 
        records were published only after the death of all delegates to the 
        Convention;
Whereas James Madison wrote many of the newspaper articles now known as the 
        Federalist Papers, outlining why States should endorse the new 
        Constitution and enduring as some of the best arguments for our form of 
        government;
Whereas James Madison introduced the Bill of Rights into the 1st Congress of the 
        United States, whereupon the first ten amendments to the Constitution 
        were adopted; and
Whereas it is altogether fitting that the 16th day of March, the birthday of the 
        distinguished founding father, James Madison, would serve as a fitting 
        reminder of Liberty Day, a celebration of the Declaration of 
        Independence and the United States Constitution, where our unalienable 
        rights and liberties are enumerated: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) a Liberty Day should be celebrated each year in the 
        United States as a remembrance of both the freedom that 
        Americans were given in the Declaration of Independence and the 
        extraordinary rights and liberties that Americans were given in 
        their Constitution; and
            (2) all elected and previously-elected representatives of 
        the people who voluntarily give of their time to speak to 
        Americans about those founding documents, in furtherance of 
        that remembrance of our freedom, our rights and our liberties, 
        deserve our thanks.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 10, 2000.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.