HYDE PARK — Former “Daily Show” writer Kevin Bleyer will lay out his rewrites for the Constitution at the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore on Thursday.
Bleyer will read from his book “Me the People” at 6 p.m. at the bookstore at 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.
In the book, Bleyer takes a satirical stab at updating the nation’s founding document. He travels across the country and down the list of amendments to find some sections need a total rewrite. Bleyer finds that others, like the Second Amendment, only need a tweak to recapture the spirit the founding fathers intended.
“A, well; regulated! Militia — being. {necessary} to, the, security? of, a, free ... State, the, right ... of, the, people ... to, keep! and, bear? Arms; shall, not, be, infringed?!” Bleyer writes in his version of the amendment.
The reading will mark the final days of Bleyer’s time as a fellow less than a block away at the Institute of Politics. He presented a seminar on “The Art of Possible: Making Politics Palatable” during the fall quarter at the University of Chicago.
The reading at the bookstore is free and open to the public.
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