As the nation marked the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution this Monday, the speakers who gathered at Teachers College illuminated the challenges of American jurisprudence in our society’s current climate.

“I’m not going to sugarcoat it,” declared Vincent Warren, Esq., Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights to an audience in Milbank Chapel. “We’re in a very deep hole.”

That dire assessment about the health of what some view as the most influential document ever written set the tone for a two-hour discussion on “DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) Youth, Muslim Communities and Immigrant Rights: Discourses and Challenges in U.S. Democracy.” The event was sponsored by TC’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs, which distributed copies of the U.S. Constitution to arriving students, staff and faculty on Monday morning.

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