My column in last Saturday's Times News presented the reasons
why September 17th should not be the day we celebrate as
"Constitution Day" and how the persistent efforts by Mrs. Olga
T. Weber (a resident of Louisville, Ohio), which started in
1952, saw President Eisenhower sign a law in 1955 that made
September 17 - 23 "Constitution Week" and ultimately resulted,
among other things, in this incorrect date being established as
a federal holiday by Congress as "Constitution Day" in 2004.
Sadly, we do not celebrate our State's Constitution. Many
Pennsylvanians do not even know that there is a Constitution of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, much less that Sept. 28, 1776
was the date on which our first Constitution became law, thus
creating the State of Pennsylvania. Very few Pennsylvanians have
actually read the 1776 Constitution of Pennsylvania.  It is
estimated that over 90 per cent of those in our local, county
and state governments have not read the current Pennsylvania
Constitution, even though each of the