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Liberals do have an equivalent to the Federalist Society, and yes, you have heard of it. In fact, conservatives studied it very carefully when they created the Federalist Society back in 1982.
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There actually is one liberal analog to the Federalist Society, but chances are you haven’t heard of it: the American Constitution Society, founded in 2001, after the Supreme …
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Simply put, there is a market for FedSoc; there isn’t a market for a liberal equivalent. The reason for this discrepancy is that the legal profession is overwhelmingly …
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The society looks to Federalist Paper Number 78 for an articulation of the virtue of judicial restraint, as written by Alexander Hamilton: "It can be of no weight to say that the courts, on the pretense of a repugnancy, may substitute their own pleasure to the constitutional intentions of the legislature ... The courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDGMENT, the consequence would equally be the substitution of their pleasure to t…
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Since its founding in 1982, the Federalist Society has championed “judicial restraint,” the notion that judges should limit their roles to interpreting the law as written, …
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The American Constitution Society (ACS) is a progressive legal organization. ACS was created as a counterweight to, and is modeled after, the Federalist Society , and is often described as its …
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To be sure, members of the Federalist Society tend to be conservative and libertarian—probably more so than the average American, though I am not entirely sure of …
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The Federalist Society is a hugely powerful, nationwide organization of conservative lawyers which will be instrumental in helping President Trump pick the next …
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They were opposed by people like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson who favoured stronger states and a relatively weak national government.
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Over the past generation, the conservative legal movement’s primary advantage over liberals has been that it offers a substantive vision for society. Yes, it is a vision rooted in reaction and ...
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