Reynolds describes himself as a "small c" conservative. He thinks the enterprise is dangerous, but he is not arguing against it. He points to a Rasmussen poll that indicates that people believe the government doesn't have the consent of the governed. Uses a metaphor which utilizes the analogy of the constitution as a computer's operating system. Want to deal with specific issues not in the operating system, but the application software. Temptation to make legislation a part of the constitution---the legislation as application software and the constitution as the operating system.
Levin's book doesn't propose to re-write the operating system. It just purges a lot of the application software from the operating system and restores it to its original condition "from the factory".
Glenn Reynolds Keynote - Conference on the Constitutional Convention from Rootstrikers on Vimeo.
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