North Iowa Area Community College will offer a program on “A More Perfect Constitution” on Friday, September 17, in Beem Forum, room 200 on the NIACC campus from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.  This free public forum will be facilitated by John Schmaltz, NIACC emeritus instructor in political science, and will commemorate Constitution Day which is held on September 17 of each year.

This year’s program will examine Professor Larry Sabato’s book, A More Perfect Constitution, in which he is proposing 23 amendments to the present constitution.  Sabato, the founder of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, offers many interesting and controversial changes to the U. S. Constitution, including a single six-year presidential term, limiting federal justices to 15-year terms and placing former presidents and vice presidents in the U. S. Senate.  Professor Sabato wants to implement these changes through a Constitutional Convention which can be called under our present constitution.  Questions and discussion will also be a part of this program.