Me the People: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the Constitution
Kevin Bleyer
Thursday, 26 Sep 2013 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Kevin Bleyer, Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, hopes to end the constant bickering about the Constitution by simply rewriting it. With humor and wit, he drags our nation's founding document into the 21st century in Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America. He takes readers to Greece, the birthplace of democracy; Philadelphia, the home of American freedom; and debates the failures of Article III with Justice Antonin Scalia. Kevin Bleyer also negotiated bipartisan consensus as a writer and producer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Banned Book Week, Constitution Day Speaker and part of the National Affairs Series.Cosponsored By:
- First Amendment Day Series
- National Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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