City of Santee, California Bill of Rights Day Proclamation
December 12, 2007
City of Santee, California
Proclamation
WHEREAS, we, people of the United States of America, have entered the early years of a new century, which separates us by more than 200 years from America's Founders, whose exertions and sacrifices brought us recognition of our present Constitutional rights and individual liberties, including personal freedoms; and
WHEREAS, it is important for schoolchildren to understand that knowledge of the roots of America's traditions of Constitutional rights and individual liberties begins with reading the U.S. Constitution and the American Bill of Rights; and
WHEREAS, the preservation of the these Constitutional rights and individual liberties is essential to the well-being of a democratic society and to maintenance of our distinctive American way of life.
NOW, THEREFORE, I Randy Voepel, Mayor of the City of Santee, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim December 15, 2007 as
“BILL OF RIGHTS DAY”
in the City of Santee in honor of the 216th anniversary of establishment of the American Bill of Rights.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of December, two thousand seven, and have caused the Official Seal of the City of Santee to be affixed
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Mayor Randy Voepel