LAST WEEKEND, Yale’s chapter of the American Constitutional Society sponsored a conference at Yale Law School titled “The Constitution in 2020.” The stated purpose of the conference, at which some of America’s best-known liberal law professors appeared, was to work toward a “progressive” consensus as to what the Constitution should provide for by the year 2020, and a strategy for how liberal lawyers and judges might bring such a constitutional regime into being.

The conference web site describes the event as follows: