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Luverne Middle School students celebrate Constitution Day
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Lori Sorenson

Thursday, Sept. 17, was Constitution Day, and Jerry Benson’s Luverne Middle School history class celebrated in style.
Students put up a wall-sized poster of the U.S. Constitution and hung several smaller posters that illustrated each of the articles.
In addition, students designed their own posters, hung red, white and blue streamers in the Middle School hallway window and enjoyed pizza in class Thursday.
The students said the most important thing they learned on Constitution Day was the Preamble.
“It sets the goals for the Constitution,” Benson said.
The text of the preamble is: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
According to constitutionday.com, the Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States.
It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the Federal Government of the United States.
It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government.
The document defines the three main branches of the government: The legislative branch with a bicameral Congress, an executive branch led by the President, and a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court.
Besides providing for the organization of these branches, the Constitution outlines obligations of each office, as well as provides what powers each branch may exercise.
It also reserves numerous rights for the individual states, thereby establishing the United States' federal system of government.
Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by 39 founding fathers on Sept. 17, 1787, recognizing all who are born in the United States or are here by naturalization have become citizens.

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