Presidential Document2026-19333
Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and Constitution Week, 2026
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September 21, 2026
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September 16, 2026
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 181 (Monday, September 21, 2026)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 59971-59972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-19333]
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Vol. 91
Monday,
No. 181
September 21, 2026
Part IV
The President
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Proclamation 11067--Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and Constitution
Week, 2026
Proclamation 11068--National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2026
Executive Order 14428--Providing Meaningful Water Quality Improvements
Through Collaboration and Oversight of Federal Support
Memorandum of September 16, 2026--Restoring Reciprocity in Government
Procurement
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Federal Register / Vol. 91 , No. 181 / Monday, September 21, 2026 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 11067 of September 16, 2026
Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, and
Constitution Week, 2026
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During Constitution Week, we proudly commemorate the
239th anniversary of the signing of the United States
Constitution, the very foundation of our Republic and
an eternal reminder that all power throughout our land
flows from We the People. Over two centuries later, we
remain more committed than ever to protecting and
cherishing the fundamental values of America and the
vision of our forefathers for a just, prosperous, and
free Nation.
On September 17, 1787, the Founding Fathers assembled
at Independence Hall to summon the courage of the
American Spirit and boldly proclaim, in a single
governing document, their resolve to form a more
perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic
tranquility, provide for our national defense, ensure
the welfare of all our citizens, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
The 39 patriots who signed it, many of whom had risked
their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for
Independence just years before during the Revolution,
immortalized the essential principles of the rule of
law, the separation of powers, and federalism as the
cornerstone of our Republic.
Guided by the most righteous political document ever
conceived, America remains the greatest force for good
in the history of the world. Americans enjoy freedom of
speech, freedom of religion, equal justice under the
law, and the Second Amendment--among other unalienable
rights--hard won by the selfless men and women who have
fought, bled, and died across the generations to
preserve them for citizens of every race, religion,
color, and creed. These rights come with solemn
responsibilities, and since the dawn of our Republic,
love of country, devotion to liberty, dedication to the
rule of law, and a steadfast passion for preserving
that inheritance have been the obligations of every
dutiful American citizen.
These values now face a new threat: a rise in anti-
American rhetoric from communists and far-left
radicals, who seek to divide our communities, rob our
children of their futures, and poison the minds of our
citizens through slanderous fabrications of our great
American story. Where our Constitution recognizes
rights as gifts of Almighty God that no earthly power
may take away, socialism and communism treat them as
favors of the State to be rationed and revoked,
demanding total submission to a movement that is only
capable of bringing poverty, persecution, and ruin
wherever it has been tried. These failed ideologies do
not make life more affordable or prosperous--they
destroy opportunity, create hardship, and leave working
families with less. That same contempt for our
Constitution took root at home under the previous
administration, which turned its power against the very
citizens it was sworn to serve and let our institutions
rewrite the very story of America itself.
On my watch, the weaponization of Government has ended,
and America is once again upholding its constitutional
principles enshrined at the founding of our Republic.
Upon returning to office, I fulfilled my vow to the
American People by signing an Executive Order that
harnessed the full
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power of the Federal Government to reverse the previous
administration's systematic campaign of fear,
intimidation, and lawfare and to once again guarantee
that citizens are no longer targeted for their beliefs.
My Administration is rebuilding our economy around the
fundamental rights of individual liberty and economic
freedom. We are also restoring truth and sanity to
American history, purging divisive and corrosive
ideology from our institutions and national museums,
saving the monuments and stories of our ancestors from
a false and wicked narrative which sought to erase
them, and teaching students to revere our country,
honor our heroes, and respect our incredible American
flag.
Under my leadership, the Constitution of the United
States and the values it enshrines will always be
preserved, protected, and defended as the supreme law
of the land, and we will keep the Federal Government
limited in its reach, honest in its conduct, and
answerable only to the people it serves. I will never
allow the dignity of our proud national heritage to be
destroyed, and so long as I am President, America will
continue to stand for freedom. Together, we will
safeguard our God-given rights, our Constitution, and
our glorious way of life for generations to come.
The Congress, by joint resolution of February 29, 1952
(36 U.S.C. 106), designated September 17 as
``Constitution Day and Citizenship Day'' and, by joint
resolution of August 2, 1956 (36 U.S.C. 108), requested
that the President proclaim the week beginning
September 17 and ending September 23 of each year as
``Constitution Week.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim the week of September
17 through September 23, 2026, as Constitution Week.
Throughout this week, I call on all teachers, school
administrators, and State and local leaders to educate
America's pupils on the rights and responsibilities of
citizenship under our constitutional order. In doing
so, we will ensure ``a more perfect Union'' will
continue to prosper
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-six, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and fifty-
first.
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