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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568033" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Constitution’s Birthday</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our Constitution’s Birthday<br>(September 17,2008) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the year, Seventeen eighty-seven<br>Those thirty-nine, changed our History<br>They signed that piece of parchment<br>The Laws of, the Land of the Free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In more than two hundred twenty years<br>It has gone through a few changes<br>That’s not, an easy thing to get done<br>For, all of our lives, it rearranges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The First through Tenth Amendments<br>Are known as our Bill of Rights<br>And many times, they were in danger<br>But, the People, usually won those fights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes, those people in power<br>Try to change them, for their gain<br>Sometimes they will just ignore them<br>Like we’ve seen, time and again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are our only, real protection<br>With a high and terrible price to pay<br>If we don’t keep fighting for them<br>There’s some, would take them all away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Other Amendments, Thirteen and Fifteen<br>Abolished Racial Suffrage and Slavery<br>Supposed to give promised Rights<br>To all of those promised, Liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sixteenth, allowed for Income Tax<br>And as we know, it has many a flaw<br>Some say, that it was never Ratified<br>That, it was never made, a Legal Law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Eighteenth, Prohibition of Alcohol<br>Which was, another legal blunder<br>With organized crime borne of it<br>And, the Rule of Law torn, asunder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Nineteenth, said Women could Vote<br>After a very long, contentious fight<br>Just look at what those Ladies have done<br>Since, they got their, American Right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, a Repeal of Prohibition<br>Came with the Twenty-first<br>In most places, booze flowed freely<br>To quench America’s, hearty thirst.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Twenty-second said, Two Terms<br>Was, all a President could serve<br>But, as we know, for some, one<br>Was one more, than they deserved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Twenty-sixth said we could Vote<br>When reaching Eighteen years of age<br>Since they could fight and die for us<br>Every time, we had a War to wage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those great words of our Constitution<br>Have served our Country long, and well<br>Will they withstand the test of time<br>Or will History show, our Nation, fell? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we don’t protect them with our life<br>If we bow to those powers that, be<br>If we let them twist those words around<br>One sad day, we’ll be no longer, Free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can’t let our precious Bill of Rights<br>Fail, to protect us all, as they must do<br>We can’t let one man, or group of men<br>Twist them into something, they construe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though, our Constitution is not perfect<br>Our Founding Fathers knew, this so<br>And, “In God We Trust”, is not enough<br>Our Freedom depends, on where, we go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We must each, defend those Freedoms<br>From outside foes, and those, within<br>It’s, We, the People, wield the power<br>To lose this battle, which, we must, win.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, On this Constitution Day<br>Let’s each, pay the price we owe<br>To uphold those words of Wisdom<br>Penned upon that parchment, long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Del “Abe” Jones<br>09.16.2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abe+Jones">Abe Jones</a><div class=q>
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(September 17,2008) 

In the year, Seventeen eighty-seven
Those thirty-nine, changed our History
They signed that piece of parchment
The Laws of, the Land of the Free.

In more than two hundred twenty years
It has gon..."></div>
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