Program Description
Event Details
Campbell County Public Library is pleased to host Fault Lines in the Constitution: A Community Conversation, a livestream event on Tuesday, May 16, 6:30pm.Wyoming Humanities, Wyoming Affiliate of the Center for the Book, Off Square Theatre Company, and the Wonder Institute in Jackson, WY are hosting a discussion on the U.S. Constitution moderated by authors Cynthia and Sanford Levinson.
The author's interactive presentation involves audience participation, and invites you to think critically about our Constitution and how we apply it. The event will expand on themes found in their book, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today. Copies of the book are available at CCPL! The event will take place in Jackson, with livestreaming to audiences in Sheridan, Goshen, Campbell, and Natrona counties. Each of those counties will engage in a discussion facilitated by a local community member.
Books: A limited number of copies of Fault Lines in the Constitution are available for free at your libraries in Gillette and Wright. Stop by to pick one up and plan to join the conversation on May 16.
About our Facilitator: Lucas Fralick, Wyoming Humanities Program Coordinator, will moderate our CCPL event. He lives on a hobby farm outside of Gillette, holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Wyoming and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Black Hills State University. He serves on the Campbell County Rockpile Museum board of directors.
About the Authors: Cynthia Levinson holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University and also attended the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. A former teacher and educational policy consultant and researcher, she is the author of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March as well as Watch Out for Flying Kids!. She has also published articles in Appleseeds, Calliope, Cobblestone, Dig, Faces, and Odyssey. You can visit her website here.
Sanford Levinson is an American legal scholar, a professor in the Law School and the Department of Government at the University of Texas, and a frequent visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He holds degrees from Duke, Stanford, and Harvard universities and is the author of several adult books on the Constitution, including Constitutional Faith (1988, 2d ed. 2011); Our Undemocratic Constitution (2006); and Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance (2012); and, most recently, An Argument Open to All: Reading The Federalist in the 21st Century (2015).
This program has been made possible through a grant from Wyoming Humanities.