PRINTER'S NO. 1218
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
89
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, SANCHEZ, BOBACK, LONGIETTI, HILL-EVANS,
FREEMAN, SCHWEYER, SCHLOSSBERG, HOWARD, ISAACSON, HOHENSTEIN,
WEBSTER, GALLOWAY, MADDEN, PASHINSKI, NEILSON, MALAGARI,
CONKLIN, SAINATO AND BRIGGS, APRIL 12, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, APRIL 12, 2021
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Designating the month of October 2021 as "Civic Education
Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, This Commonwealth is where the constitutional
government for the United States of America began 234 years ago;
and
WHEREAS, We, the American people, must heed President Abraham
Lincoln's charge to ensure "that government of the people, by
the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth";
and
WHEREAS, To maintain a government by and for the people, the
United States needs a citizenry that understands the history and
foundation of our representative democracy, the role of strong
institutions in facilitating effective collective decisionmaking
and the essential nature of active community participation in
our system of self-governance; and
WHEREAS, Only 39% of Americans can name the three branches of
our national government; and
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