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Immediate: September 11, 2013Media Contacts: Chuck Cutolo 516.572.7811Email: chuck.cutolo@ncc.eduAlicia Steger 516.572.9634Email:  alicia.steger@ncc.eduncc.edu/newsreleases

Nassau Community College Presents

If It's Broke, Fix It: Amending the Constitution Via the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment 

 

September 17 

Garden City, NY – Nassau Community College celebrates Constitution Day this year with the program If It's Broke, Fix It: Amending the Constitution Via the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 17 at 10:00 a.m. in the College Center Building, Room 252-253.Courtesy of Laurence Fishburne's superb portrayal of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the HBO presentation Thurgood, and the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics' presentation on the Bill of Rights, the commemoration will zero in on:•  The application of the 14th Amendment as seen through the eyes of an icon of the civil rights struggle of the mid-twentieth century, and•  The development, in the historical context of the late 18th Century, of the first 10 amendments embodied in the Bill of Rights.These presentations will offer insights into how the Constitution has been "amended," or just plain "fixed" since 1787 with the goal of making it a "more perfect document."

For more information about If It's Broke, Fix It: Amending the Constitution Via the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, please call 516.572.7811.

About Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 24,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education.  More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island.  As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

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