Summary

The text includes a note describing what follows as the transcript of a performance between debater Thursday Williams, “who alternated performances with Rosdely Ciprian on Broadway” (81).

The text of the debate begins with Thursday introducing herself and her background. Her initial claims about the nature of the Constitution are the same as Rosdely’s – that is, that it is both the cause and the source of the country’s problems. She also offers the same opinion that it is a living, evolving document, “capable of getting better. And better. With every generation” (82). She also rebuts some of Heidi’s earlier comments in the same way as Rosdely did, but offers her own interpretation of what the 9th Amendment means to her, illustrating her point by telling a story of a female lawyer who wore a pair of striking shoes, of wanting those shoes, and...