Owens to Host Constitution Day Educational Programs
PERRYSBURG TOWNSHIP, OH – Area residents are invited to receive insight into the founding of the United States and the principles behind the country’s governmental systems as Owens Community College celebrates Constitution Day by serving as host to several educational programs, Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 17-18.
The two-day event will take place in the College’s Audio/Visual Classroom Center Rooms 125-128 on the Toledo-area Campus. Owens is located on Oregon Road in Perrysburg Township. The educational programs are open to the public and cost $25 per day.
The first day of activities on Sept. 17, which is being presented by the National Center for Constitutional Studies and Owens, is titled “Making of America” and will occur from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. National Center for Constitutional Studies President Dr. Earl Taylor will serve as the keynote presenter for both morning and afternoon sessions. Taylor’s morning session is titled “Developing America’s Great Success Formula” and will focus on the creation of the first free nation in modern times, while the afternoon session’s presentation is titled “The Perfect Plan of Liberty” and will provide a look into the political and economic principles from preamble through the amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Constitution Day community events will continue on Sept. 18 from 12:30-6 p.m. The second day of educational programming is being presented by the Northwest Ohio Conservative Coalition and Owens and titled “The Constitution: Timeless Principles for a Nation”. Activities will commence with a lunch and learn roundtable discussion on the principles of the Constitutional Republic. Speakers participating in the discussion are Lee Strang, Charlie Earl, Gary Rathbun and Maurice Thompson, among others. Three breakout sessions will follow the lunch and learn roundtable discussion and feature such topics as the history of taxation, state sovereignty, religion and morality, enumerated powers and the 10th Amendment. The day will conclude with “The Famous Constitutional Quote Game”.
Established in 2004, Constitution Day celebrates the significant moment in U.S. history when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document that defined and separated powers of the federal government on Sept. 17, 1787.
For more information, or to register for either event, call (567) 661-7357 or 1-800-GO-OWENS, Ext. 7357.
Press Release Contact Name: Brad Meyer
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Organization Name: Owens Community College