Following is a brief report on what happened. The final panel presented a speaker, Elaine Kamarck who said that she was here at the insistance of the Dean of the Kennedy School. Kamarch said that the task folks have is very difficult and it is unprecedented. That essentially there are two organizational forms to consider, the first panel considered interest group organizations. These are protected by the first amendment, the right of freedom of speech and of association.
People ban together to influence some entity, usually the government.
Membership is voluntary, usually there is easy entrance and easy exit. Interest groups are what this meeting has heard from all day. But those are meant to influence. As opposed to that, there are regulatory agencies of the government. And those exercise the power of the state.