Fault Lines in the Constitution – Community Conversation

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Fault Lines in the Constitution – Community Conversation
Off Square Theatre Company
The Center Theater
May 16 | 6:30 PM

Join Off Square Theatre Company, Wyoming Humanities, and the Wonder Institute for a lively discussion on the U.S. Constitution. Authors Cynthia and Sanford Levinson have an interactive presentation that involves audience participation, inviting you to think critically about the US Constitution and how we apply it. The event will be expanding on themes found in their book, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today. This event will be livestreamed to communities across the state where other groups are gathering for their own hosted conversations.

This event is free and tickets are not required. However, if you plan on attending the event, please take a moment to register here. While supplies last, you may also pick up your free copy of Fault Lines in the Constitution at the Front Desk of the Teton County Library.

About the Authors & Speakers
Cynthia Levinson holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After teaching and consulting for many years, she now writes nonfiction books for young readers that focus on social justice, including The Youngest Marcher and The People’s Painter. Her books have won numerous awards, including the Sibert Medal, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, and the Jane Addams Book Award. She loves doing research in the places she writes about”and she’s currently writing a book on space! Cynthia and her husband, Sandy, have two daughters, four grandchildren, and two grand puppies.

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).