Center for Civic Engagement Presents
Imagining the Constitution
Friday, September 23, 2022
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join Rachel Cavell as she leads an interactive workshop where attendees will be working with the Federalist Papers, a foundational document providing the essential blueprint for the U.S. Constitution. In these documents, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison instruct us to “deliberate” on a new Constitution for the United States of America; as they enjoin us to engage in this debate by our very “conduct and example”. Over two hundred years later, in a very different United States, the question is posed most urgently again about what it means to “deliberate” about our democracy, and by what “conduct” and “example” we might do so. What would we need to emphasize or to change about ourselves and our communities to become the kind of democratic citizens so envisioned?
Rachel is a practicing lawyer, and pre-law advisor at Bard. She is also a member of the Bard College Faculty, where she teaches FYSEM and L&T; as well as courses in writing and Civics with the BPI. She will be joining the Women in Leadership class, working with attendees on the Federalist Papers, and what might be required to imagine a Constitution. Open to the Bard community!
For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema