Symplectic Analysis of the Two Dimensional Palatini Action

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.