Clay Center mayor declares Constitution Week at council meeting

During the Sept. 18 Clay Center Council meeting, Mayor L. Wayne Johnson gave a declaration marking Sept. 17 as the 231st anniversary of the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention.

Also stated in the declaration: “Whereas it is the privilege and duty of the American people to commemorate the drafting of the Constitution of the United States of America with appropriate ceremonies and activities...therefore, I, L. Wayne Johnson, by virtue of the authority vested in me as the Mayor of the City of Clay Center in the State of Nebraska do hereby proclaim the week of Sept. 17 through 23 as Constitution Week, and ask our citizens to reaffirm the ideals of the Framers of the Constitution... by vigilantly protecting the freedoms guaranteed to use through this guardian of our liberties, remembering that lost rights my never be regained.”

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