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What Constitution Day Means and Why It Matters.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jamieson, Kathleen Hall |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | As John Stuart Mill noted in his treatise on Representative Government, individuals who constitute a nationality “are united among themselves by common sympathies which do not exist between them and any others” and also by “the possession of a national history, and consequent community of recollections....”1 To create national identity, societies designate occasions in which their members recommit themselves to basic communal values. Labor Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Presidents Day and Martin Luther King Day are among the holidays performing these functions in the United States. |
| Starting Page | 160 |
| Ending Page | 164 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 78 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/images/public_education/September2014_Jamieson.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
