Homemakers Partner With Scholarly Center to Promote Knowledge of U.S. Constitution
by Mary Rettig
August 25, 2005
(AgapePress) - Homemakers for America founder and president Kimberly Fletcher says Americans are finally starting to realize the importance of becoming familiar with the Constitution of the United States. She says it is interest in this important area of knowledge that has encouraged her group, along with the National Center for Constitutional Studies, to promote a full-length feature called A More Perfect Union. Although the movie is designed for educational purposes, Fletcher says viewers will discover that A More Perfect Union is entertaining as well as informative. "The National Center for Constitutional Studies, who we've partnered with, has taken the movie and divided it into five lesson segments," she notes. "You click on the first one, and it has the narrator speaking from Independence Hall; he gives you a little bit of an idea about the history of America and what was going on at the time and then what you are about to see. You view a little segment of the movie, and then he comes back and wraps it up."
The full feature, two-hour motion picture dramatically depicts the events surrounding the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and helps viewers to understand the implications of those events for present-day citizens' rights, freedoms, and protections. Homemakers for America's goal is to put this film, with its educational user-friendly format, into every school and every federal agency in the nation. The organization's president says her group hopes to use the feature to teach Americans about the real meaning of their primary governing document and its great historical heritage.
If Americans really knew what was written in their federal constitution, Fletcher asserts, there would be no debate on issues like the so-called separation of church and state because "the people of America would know that that does not exist. And they would know what is in the Constitution -- laws that keep our congressmen and our senators in check."
But because many U.S. citizens do not actually know what the Constitution says, the Homemakers of America spokeswoman contends, many elected officials in government "have been able to take authority that they are not given in the Constitution." What the people need to know and realize, she emphasizes, is that "the Constitution is their voice. It is their power."
However, Fletcher says most Americans are sadly lacking in their knowledge of the basics of U.S. government, especially the provisions and guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. But Homemakers for America and the National Center for Constitutional Studies are hoping to help change that, with the help of A More Perfect Union.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
