At “Constitution Cafés,” We, the People, Try to Form a More Perfect Union
How I'm Getting Citizens Together to Rewrite Our Government’s Sacred Text
Are Americans finally ready to un-rig their Constitutional system?
I’ve spent nearly the past decade traveling the United States and talking with people about the Constitutional system, and I think the answer is yes.
My work on the question started in 2008, with an experiment called the Constitution Café. These were an evolution of the Socrates Café, public gatherings around the globe (from Tokyo to Sydney to Salt Lake City) that follow Socratic principles and served as spaces for friends and foes, intimates and strangers, to explore existential problems, an exploration that …
