The Conference for a Constitutional Convention at Harvard Law School on September 24 and 25 was supposed to be an opportunity for the Left and Right to talk together about the possibility of ending our broken political system through a discussion of a new Constitutional Convention.  Lawrence Lessig of Rootstrikers (http://www.rootstrikers.org/), represented the Left and Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots (http://www.teapartypatriots.org) represented the Right.

From my point of view, the conference wasn’t really the advertised meeting of the Left and the Right.  Lessig himself was a Reagan delegate to the Republican Convention back in the day;  and although there was a good bit of representation from the Tea Party Patriot group, there was nobody there explicitly from MoveOn or anything really  further left than the ADA wing of the Democratic Party, with the exception of a couple of folks from the Revolutionary Communists who were hawking their Constitution For The New Socialist Republic In North America (pdf alert:  http://revcom.us/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf).  It did, however, reveal a subculture that has been working towards a Constitutional Convention for decades.