National Bill of Rights Day

Today is National Bill of Rights Day, celebrating the adoption into law of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. It's rather short notice but you can go to the National Constitution Center and find some lesson plans if you're a teacher. Or you could go to My Bill of Rights and get yourself a wallet size card listing the Bill of Rights so you can be reminded of the rules the federal government is supposed to be following rather than what is currently happening. Regardless of your politics, you owe it to yourself and your country to be an informed citizen. A democratic republic requires as much to function as designed.

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance: which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

I made it easy for you, take a minute to read it. Pay particular attention to Number Ten. That's the one everyone seems to forget about.