“Keepers of the Law” Explained
Get ready for an emotional experience that will rock your school, thrill your heart and give you
hope for the future of America! This is an interactive simulated experience that staff and
participants love!
Participants are Constitutional Convention Delegates with the quest to become FOUNDING
FATHERS. Most people do not see themselves as active participants in the fight for liberty in
America and have never thought of themselves as such. However, in order to preserve our liberty
from one generation to another we must all become FOUNDING FATHERS to throw down
tyranny and espouse principles of freedom. This event provides an opportunity for students to
become Delegates to the Constitutional Convention on a quest to become FOUNDING
FATHERS. It is an opportunity to remember the principles that have made America the land of
the free!
Volunteers and faculty become “Constitutional Convention Officials” who explain the
Constitutional Laws and ask students to make the necessary constitutional commitments before
signing The Constitution of the United States. Teachers also administer the delegates’ convention
briefing before the event as an in-class assignment.
We define a FOUNDING FATHER as someone who loves the principles America was founded
upon and who will work to keep America free!
To recognize FOUNDING FATHERS your school is turned into Constitution Hall complete with
an interactive assembly, Constitutional Laws, convention briefings, Constitutional Commitments
and much more! Those involved will sense a swell of patriotism as they go through the
requirements to become FOUNDING FATHERS.
Before the day starts teachers are taken through an in-service training where they are given
materials. Teachers administer a provided convention briefing to students to help orientate them
for the event. On the day of the event delegates (students) come to an assembly and learn about
the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the events surrounding it. Then students are taken
through the Constitutional Laws (staffed by parents who become Constitutional Convention
Officials) where they make Constitutional Laws in their official convention program. Upon
completion of all of the Constitutional Laws, delegates return for the closing assembly where
they learn about the risks and hopes the Founding Fathers expected when they signed The
Constitution of the United States. Then students formally sign their own copy of The
Constitution of the United States and become FOUNDING FATHERS.