Constitutional Conversations, the award-winning nine-month long examination of the nation’s founding document, will continue its workshop series tonight at the Williamsburg Regional Library, 515 Scotland St.
Participants are divided into two groups – adults, and middle and high school students – to discuss a particular Constitutional topic. Tonight’s session, for adults, will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and the discussion will take a comparative approach to the law in a session titled “How Has the U.S. Constitution Shaped the Rule of Law in Other Societies?”
The middle and high school student section will meet next week, on Thursday, April 11 also from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Theirs will be a forward-looking workshop on “What Problems Lie Ahead for America’s Democracy?”
Constitutional Conversations is an award-winning, non-partisan, community-based education project designed to send law students into the community to educate citizens about their civic rights and duties. The project is developed and maintained by the Student Division of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary School of Law, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and the Williamsburg Regional Library.
The goal is to inspire students and adults, alike, to become active participants in the democratic process. Instruction in the history and development of our fundamental Constitutional rights is an indispensable foundation for effective civic training for all Americans. It also serves as the basis for the unique engine of human change.
