Huntington- Christopher Bracket and Elizabeth D’Amato, students at Gateway Regional High School, took the lead on acknowledging Constitution Day at the school on September 18th, marking the official anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. 

Actually, the official anniversary—as noted by Bracket, a senior at the school and an American Government student—was on September 17th, which fell on a Sunday this year. 

“This anniversary commemorates the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention adjourned from its long months of deliberation at the State House in Philadelphia (now Independence Hall), after having completed the arduous and historic task of writing the United States Constitution, the oldest and most revered constitution in the world.” 

D’Amato continued, “At this exact time all across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. . . . students like Chris and myself are paying special homage to our nation’s heritage by promoting the Constitution of the United States of America to each generation…Our goal today is to help educate each new generation to the uniqueness and brilliance of our Constitution, the most perfect governmental document conceived by man.  We also want to show the need to protect and defend it to maintain our liberties.”  D’Amato is a Sophomore at Gateway, and a student in Mr. Gary Boisseau’s American Studies class.

The students then read the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, and invited all interested to Boisseau’s classroom for a free copy of the Constitution.