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PROCLAMATION: C• •September
23,2022
September 20, 2022 - REGULAR MEETING OF THE MOUNT
PROSPECT VILLAGE BOARD -
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PROCLAMATION
CONSTITUTION WEEK
SEPTEMBER 16 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
WHEREAS, our Founding Fathers, in order to secure the blessings of liberty for themselves
and their posterity, did ordain and establish a Constitution for the United States of America;
and
WHEREAS, at the culmination of months of deliberation, debate and compromise, on
September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was signed; and
WHEREAS, this document, crafted by these early patriots enshrines our enduring faith in the
notion that being a citizen is about more than circumstances of birth -- we are bound together
by our beliefs, our unalienable rights, and the idea that we must accept certain obligations to
one another and to future generations; and
WHEREAS, The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution
which greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans was adopted on July 9,
1868; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution embodies the equal treatment and equal rights of all citizens, by
birth or naturalization; and
WHEREAS, through all its changes over the years, the Constitution's foundation has endured
and adapted; and it is the supreme law of our land; and
WHEREAS, the adoption of the Constitution and the independence guaranteed to American
Citizens, whether by birth or by naturalization, should be celebrated by appropriate
ceremonies and activities during Constitution Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Paul Wm. Hoefert, Mayor of the Village of Mount Prospect do hereby
proclaim:
September 16 through September 22, 2022 as Constitution Week
In the Village of Mount Prospect and I encourage all citizens to reflect during this week on
the many benefits of our Federal Constitution and the responsibilities and privileges of
American Citizenship.
Paul Wm. Hoefert
Mayor
ATTEST:
Karen M. Agoranos
Village Clerk
Dated this 6th day of September, 2022