  The symplectic analysis, initiated by Faddeev and Jackiw, is applied to the
first order (Palatini) form of the Einstein-Hilbert action in 1 + 1 dimensions.
The constraints that arise are shown to result in the same gauge
transformations that follow from the first class constraints occurring when the
Dirac constraint formalism is applied to this action. Problems associated with
gauge fixing are discussed.
