[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 19, 2018)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 47545-47546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20570]


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                Proclamation 9788 of September 14, 2018

                
Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and 
                Constitution Week, 2018

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On this day and during this week, we celebrate the 
                signing of our Constitution, which has proved that 
                Government established by the people through reflection 
                and deliberate choice can thrive and endure, rather 
                than devolve into chaos and upheaval. Our Nation began 
                with the ``honorable determination,'' as James Madison 
                put it, ``to rest all our political experiments on the 
                capacity of mankind for self-government.'' We recognize 
                the Constitution's role in securing for our country the 
                blessings of liberty; we salute the service members, 
                statesmen, and citizens who have defended it; and we 
                commit ourselves to the active citizenship that self-
                government requires.

                The Framers established a strong Federal Government 
                able to provide the energy and stability its people 
                require while simultaneously limiting its reach and 
                reserving all powers not expressly assigned to the 
                Federal Government to the States and the people. When 
                the Federal Government acts, it must do so with 
                accountability. We are a Nation of laws, and laws must 
                be enacted by the people's elected representatives. The 
                Constitution ensures that the Government acts only with 
                the consent of the governed, as expressed by the 
                representatives responsible to them. That vital 
                safeguard is lost when obscure and unaccountable 
                regulators impose unforeseen mandates on the American 
                people or twist the plain meaning of statutes to 
                regulate without authority from the Congress. Our 
                constitutional system will be ``of little avail to the 
                people,'' Madison said, when the law ``is little known, 
                and less fixed.''

                In my Inaugural Address, I promised to return power to 
                the American people. As President, I have instructed my 
                Cabinet and all agency officials to regulate only when, 
                and how, authorized by duly enacted statute. I have 
                also instructed agencies to eliminate regulations that 
                are ineffective, that fail to address real-world 
                problems, that are needlessly burdensome, and that 
                prevent Americans from designing their own innovative 
                solutions. I call on Federal agencies to make room for 
                States and local communities, for religious and civic 
                organizations, and for individual Americans to address 
                problems with the ingenuity and determination that make 
                our country great.

                On this day and during this week, I once again call on 
                all citizens to reflect on the original public meaning 
                of our Constitution. And I call on Government officials 
                to be mindful that laws must be clear and intelligible, 
                and enacted through an open, constitutional process so 
                that the American people can hold their Government 
                accountable.

                The Congress, by joint resolution of February 29, 1952 
                (36 U.S.C. 106), designated September 17 as 
                ``Constitution Day and Citizenship Day,'' and by joint 
                resolution of August 2, 1956 (36 U.S.C. 108), requested 
                that the President proclaim the week beginning 
                September 17 and ending September 23 of each year as 
                ``Constitution Week.''

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2018,

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                as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and September 
                17, 2018, through September 23, 2018, as Constitution 
                Week. On this day and during this week, we celebrate 
                the citizens and the Constitution that have made 
                America the greatest Nation this world has ever known. 
                In doing so, we recommit ourselves to the enduring 
                principles of the Constitution and thereby ``secure the 
                Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.''

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                third.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2018-20570
Filed 9-18-18; 11:15 am]
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