Glenn Reynolds Keynote - Conference on the Constitutional Convention

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".



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