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And next year — September 17 — we willcele-' brate the bicentennial of another historical achieve- 1 ment that firmly rooted into law what our ancestors had fought and died for—the Constitutional Convention’s adoption of our Constitution. . '
As a Virginian, I have a deep respect for history. As I often say, history is our rear view mirror on the road of life. If one pages through any grade school history book, it becomes immediately evident.that many Virginians of note have traveled down history’s road. ,y. ...
We are a state that has produced many trailblazers. After we gained our hard-fought independence from England, the leaders of our developing nation had to define just what the revolution accomplished and equally important, how free people should govern themselves. And it took our nation’s most gifted citizens — citizens like Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison, George Mason and others — to articulate the principles upon which we would govern ourselves, V
While we may not have had every law in mind during the time between the end of American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention, two principles we did believe in, for sure, were liberty, which
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