1998
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-012
BY SENATORS Blickensderfer, Alexander, Ament, Arnold, Chlouber, Coffman, Congrove, Dennis, Feeley, Hernandez, Hopper, Johnson, Lacy, Lamborn, Linkhart, Martinez, Matsunaka, Mutzebaugh, Norton, Pascoe, Perlmutter, Phillips, Powers, Reeves, Rizzuto, Rupert, Schroeder, Tanner, Thiebaut, Weddig, Wells, and Wham;
also REPRESENTATIVES McPherson, Allen, Bacon, C.
Berry, Gordon, Lawrence, Leyba, Pfiffner, Reeser, Snyder, and
Sullivant.
CONCERNING THE RECOGNITION OF LIBERTY DAY AND LIBERTY
MONTH IN COLORADO.
WHEREAS, We as Americans enjoy our liberties through
the documents that our founding fathers created, those being known
as the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
with its Bill of Rights; and
WHEREAS, James Madison was a contributing author
of the Virginia Plan, the model and the basis of discussion for
the forming of a new constitution, in the constitutional convention
of 1787, which new constitution established our new form of government,
replacing the Articles of Confederation; and
WHEREAS, James Madison kept written records of the
Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, which debates and compromises
finally produced the Constitution of the United States; and
WHEREAS, Such records were not made public until
the last signer died, who was James Madison, and his wife, Dolley
Madison, sold the records to the United States government, and
they were published around 1840; and
WHEREAS, James Madison wrote many of the newspaper
articles which outlined the reasons that the states should endorse
the new constitution; and
WHEREAS, These articles became known as the Federalist Papers, and were cowritten with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and still stand as some of the best arguments for our form of government, a representative republic; and
WHEREAS, James Madison served in the United States
House of Representatives from 1789 until 1797, during which time
he introduced into Congress the Bill of Rights, which was ratified
by the states in 1791; and
WHEREAS, James Madison was Secretary of State from
1801 until 1809, and president of the United States from 1809
until 1817; and
WHEREAS, Monday, March 16, 1998, is the 247th anniversary
of the birth of James Madison; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixtyfirst
General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives
concurring herein:
That, Monday, March 16, 1998, be proclaimed Liberty
Day Colorado and that the month of March 1998 be proclaimed Liberty
Month Colorado.
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Tom Norton Charles E. Berry
PRESIDENT OF SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
THE SENATE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Patricia K. Dicks Judith M. Rodrigue
ASSISTANT SECRETARY CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
OF THE SENATE OF REPRESENTATIVES