To mark Constitution Day (September 17, 2020), NMC Library has collected submissions of personal “appreciations” of real and imagined Constitutional amendments, or patches, that have been (or might be) stitched over the years to span holes in the founding document of our national government.
The word amendment finds its roots in the Latin emendare (e “out of”; menda “a fault”) and retains the spirit and connotations of the shortened Middle English variant, “mend” — to repair, restore or fix; to patch a hole in.
You can view the first round of appreciations in the library’s Patch✹Work video gallery. These appreciations represent the personal views and reflections of individual members of our college community, and should not be construed as institutional positions.
We’d love to add more perspectives over time, so we welcome more submissions even though the deadline for this Constitution Day has passed.