{"id":1099,"date":"2011-09-02T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:34","slug":"lessigs-conference-about-a-constitutional-convention-923-25-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/lessigs-conference-about-a-constitutional-convention-923-25-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessig’s Conference About a Constitutional Convention 9\/23-25 in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family is going to be a roving video interview team at Lawrence Lessig’s Conversation About A Constitutional Convention<\/a> in Boston September 23-25 2011, and we’d love to see our friends there as well. It turns out that the people’s will can actually trump congressional law – given that enough states and individuals come together and vote their will at a constitutional convention. Who would have thought? <\/p>\n

Fortunately, as a professor of law at Harvard – Lessig looked into this possibility and he has invited concerned citizens, and the Tea Party leader, to discuss the prospect of such a convention. Lessig says that it’s important to include the opposition in discussions about process for determining social change, and that process is something that can – and should – be agreed upon by all parties even when opposing factions have their own views about what direction it is that society should move in.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in attending, tix are $40 right now (the price seems to go up 10 days or so). All meals are being provided on Saturday, which is a mega activity day beginning at 9:00am with the keynote speech taking place at 7:30pm. If you go, give us a holler so we can look for you.<\/p>\n

Lessig also recently launched the Rootstrikers<\/a> website where anyone can post a report, or thoughts, about an instance of corruption or “evil” we have encountered: others read and comment on the reports. I’ve posted several times and found it easy. Try it yourself some time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family is going to be a roving video interview team at Lawrence Lessig’s Conversation About A Constitutional Convention in Boston September 23-25 2011, and we’d love to see our friends there as well. It turns out that the people’s will can actually trump congressional law – given that enough states and individuals come together … <\/p>\n

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