UF students might sound like Founding Fathers to people passing Library West today.
Volunteers will read sections of the U.S. Constitution at noon for the 225th anniversary of its signing. The event, UF Reads the Constitution, is sponsored by the Smathers Libraries.
About 500 free Constitution handouts will be available, said International Documents librarian Chelsea Dinsmore.
“We would like to read through the Constitution, but if a discussion starts, we are not going to stop it — as long as it remains civil,” she said.
It’s important that political candidates’ platforms are coherent with the general interpretation of the Constitution, said Prashant Kansakar, a 26-year-old industrial and systems engineering graduate student.
“Our president’s job is to defend the Constitution,” he said. “The majority of voters don’t vote on that basis, but I think theoretically, in the ideal world, it should be that way.”
