Roll Call commentary on the Citizens' Assembly

Harvard Law Professor Heather Gerken and University of
California-Davis Professor Chris Elmendorf expect to have an op-ed in today's Roll Call
(http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_52/guest/11239-1.html) calling for a Citizens' Assembly in California.  Professors Gerken and Elmendorf have been blogging on this subject for several days.  Their initial blog is posted below.  Their exchange with Ethan Leib, one of the early advocates of giving
random bodies of citizens formal legislative authority, can be found at:

http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2005/11/gerken_and_elme.html
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2005/11/gerken_and_elme_1.html