Will you take the pledge? I did.

The U.S. National Archives are presenting citizens with the opportunity to sign the founding documents of the United States.

Happy #ConstitutionDay! Now you can sign your name to a virtual version of the #Constitution on our website:https://t.co/Y2izZ3LIpe pic.twitter.com/NjfjbYYX45

— US National Archives (@USNatArchives) September 17, 2020

September 17, 1787 was a great day for ordered liberty when the U.S. Constitution was signed and 233 years later it is a great day to reflect on this important document and to celebrate the civilization it gave rise to. 

Today some will revere the Constitution as a sacred text, while others will condemn it, but how did one of the actual signers view it at the time? Benjamin Franklin, during a speech in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (September 17, 1787); reported in James Madison, Journal of the Federal Convention, ed. E. H. Scott (1893), p. 742:

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, — if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. 

 The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, observed in a fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798:

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Today is also a good day to re-read the Constitution and remind ourselves as citizens that we must hold the politicians accountable in order to preserve liberty and avoid despotism. Furthermore that over time amendments have been necessary to cautiously improve on the original document.

However, now that the revolutionaries are out attempting to discard this legacy of liberty it is time to stand up and be counted. Sign the document and upload it for others to see. Let me be clear,  my loyalty is to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law and I pledged my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor to the cause of freedom.