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WSCC celebrates Constitution Day

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Washington State Community College celebrated Constitution Day with a lecture, discussion, and voter registration. Constitution Day is a day set aside to commemorate the document that our Founding Fathers wrote to establish our rights and freedoms as well as the three branches of our government. The U.S. Constitution was signed and adopted on Sept. 17, 1787 when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time in Philadelphia.

Brad Merritt, associate professor of business management and Phi Theta Kappa Advisor at WSCC gave a lecture on the topic, “Is the Constitution Still Relevant?” Merritt’s lecture stresses the importance of why our Constitution was written, and why in this technological age, should we still care about a document that was written with a feather quill. In his opinion, the Constitution is still relevant today. Merritt said, “The Constitution was drafted at a time when America’s young democracy was in danger of splintering, it not only saved the nation then, but it also has helped us survive the Civil War and the Great Depression.”

Students, faculty, and staff at WSCC were all invited to attend the lecture and to discuss the relevance of the Constitution in today’s society. Phi Theta Kappa, WSCC’s honor society, assisted attendees in registering to vote.

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