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	Federalist Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federalist Society states that it is founded on the principles that "the state exists to preserve freedom," that "the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution," and that the duty of the judicial branch is "to say what the law is, not what the law should be."[1]
		Due to the strong influence of James Madison on the Society’s philosophy, the Federalist Society considers Madison to be their patriarch—hence the use of Madison’s silhouette in the Society’s official logo.
		Under United States Code, the Federalist Society is legally organized as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization and is expressly forbidden[5] to engage in "political and lobbying activities"[6].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federalist_Society (1466 words)

	Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, The
		The faculty mentor for the society is [Robert] Delahunty.
		The Federalist Society is a law school student organization that began in the 1970s, and has "adult" chapters throughout the United States.
		If one looks at the history of the Federalist Society, which was established at the inspiration of Robert Bork in the early 1980s, their entire trajectory has been to move our judicial system in an extremely radically right wing direction.
	www.mediatransparency.org /recipientprofile.php?recipientID=112 (1541 words)

	TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 3. A Hostile Takeover. Martin Garbus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By 2001 the Federalists were so dominant that George W. Bush simply eliminated the longstanding role in the evaluation of prospective judges by the resolutely centrist American Bar Association (ABA), whose ratings had long kept extremists and incompetents off the bench.
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was begun by a small group of radically conservative University of Chicago law students -- Steven Calabresi, David McIntosh and Lee Liberman Otis -- who had been undergraduates together at Yale University.
		Federalists promote "school choice" and "charitable choice" (church involvement in state efforts to reform welfare), as well as creationist teachings and the distribution of religious materials in public schools.
	www.prospect.org /print/V14/3/garbus-m.html (2246 words)

	Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies[1], founded in 1982, is a "conservative legal fellowship" attempting to mold legislation and judicial practice in the United States.
		The Federalist Society and another right-wing group, the American Enterprise Institute, have launched the website NGOWatch.org/NGOwatch.org to expose the funding, operations and agendas of international NGOs, and particularly their alleged efforts to constrain US freedom of action in international affairs and influence the behavior of corporations abroad.
		The Society is "committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Federalist_Society (934 words)

	The Federalist Society - Knowmore
		The Federalist Society drives its agenda behind a seductive facade of "intellectual debate," seeking to project the appearance of a genuine desire to engage constructively with mainstream positions on legal issues.
		The effectiveness of the Federalist Society is apparent in its significant presence in law schools, as well as in its involvement in recent challenges to the role of the American Bar Association.
		Federalist Society publications and panels often feature discussions targeting the foundation of federal civil rights law, finding and exploiting alleged shortcomings, for example,[8] in voting rights laws, gender equity protections, and desegregation orders.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/The_Federalist_Society (2361 words)

	Fed-Soc.org - FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A. The Society's main purpose is to sponsor fair, serious, and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom and the role of the courts in saying what the law is rather than what they wish it to be.
		While overall the Society believes in limited government, its members are diverse and often hold conflicting views on a broad range of issues such as tort reform, privacy rights, and criminal justice.
		The several hundred events sponsored each year by the Federalist Society are publicly advertised and are open to the press and the general public.
	www.fed-soc.org /Press/FAQs.htm (434 words)

	"The Federalist Society" by Jerry Landay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The founding chapters of the Society were established at Yale, where Bork taught before Reagan nominated him to the bench, and at the University of Chicago, where Scalia was faculty advisor and from whose ranks he would later recruit former student-Federalists to prestigious Supreme Court clerkships.
		The Federalists were (and remain) "originalist" in their approach to the Constitution--meaning that they favored strict textual readings that tended to shear back constitutional principles developed during the more liberal Warren Court era.
		The Federalist Society¹s student founders acquired conservative polish from the leading politicos of the Reagan and Bush eras, and have gone on to become political powers in their own right.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2000/0003.landay.html (2961 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Federalist Society
		Among the founders and early supporters of the Federalist Society were Edwin Meese, Irving Kristol, Antonin Scalia, and David McIntosh.
		In November 2003, the Federalist Society hosted a conference on International Law and American Sovereignty that included presentations by a number of Bush administration hardliners, including John Bolton, John Negroponte, and Paula Dobriansky.
		John Roberts, the new chief justice, is well-liked by Federalist Society members, but during the confirmation process he denied he’d ever been a member of the organization even though he once was listed in its leadership directory.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1466 (979 words)

	Fed-Soc.org - The Federalist Society (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Federalist Society's State Courts Project recently sponsored a discussion on judicial elections at the National Press Club on October 24, 2006.
		The Federalist Society continues to monitor developments at the World Intellectual Property Organization, including the proposed "Development Agenda," and its implications for the globabl IP system.
		The Federalist Society presents a newly updated version of its Five Questions Debate on the case, with five complete rounds of questions and answers and rebuttals by Professor John Baker and Mr.
	www.fed-soc.org.cob-web.org:8888 (781 words)

	Federalist Society at the University of Miami, School of Law
		The Federalist Society is a membership organization of over 25,000 judges, lawyers, law students, and scholars.
		The Society’s chief goal is to foster balanced and open debate about the fundamental principles of individual freedom and limited government.
		The Federalist Society is widely credited for fostering fair, balanced, and sophisticated intellectual debate about the state of the law.
	currentstudents.law.miami.edu /stuorgs/federalist_society (375 words)

	Federalist Society - dKosopedia
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers, law students, judges, and professors.
		Funded generously by Richard Mellon Scaife and patrons, the Federalist Society became a national networking organization that nurtured young conservatives and swiftly became the crucial channel to Supreme Court clerkships and prestigious jobs in the Reagan administration.
		Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Federalist_Society (367 words)

	Law School - Syracuse University
		The Syracuse University College of Law Chapter of the Federalist Society is a group of conservative, libertarian, and moderate law students who believe in three main principles.
		The Federalist Society is a membership organization of over 35,000 judges, lawyers, law students, and scholars.
		The Society’s chief goal is to foster balanced and open debate about the fundamental principles of individual freedom, limited government, and judicial restraint.
	www.law.syr.edu /students/organizations/federalist/index.asp (273 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Bush Running from Federalist Society
		Not only has the Federalist Society become a source of legal talent for Republican administrations, but through its frequent on-campus seminars and forums for practicing lawyers, the group is also credited with popularizing methods of legal analysis now widely advocated by many conservatives and employed by an increasing number of judges.
		The growing influence of the Federalist Society has coincided with the rise of a network of conservative research organizations and public interest law firms that together have challenged hot-button issues such as affirmative action and prohibitions against publicly funded school vouchers.
		The idea that the Federalist Society would one day play a central role in the national legal debate, or that membership in the organization would be a point of contention for a Supreme Court nominee, seemed far-fetched when the group was formed by a law students in the early 1980s.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/072905K.shtml (1129 words)

	St.Thomas University: Federalist Society
		The Saint Thomas University School of Law Federalist Society ("Society") is a conservative/libertarian student organization organized in accordance with the regulations of the Saint Thomas University.
		The purpose of the Society is to foster critical thought and debate about the application of classically liberal principles to the law.
		Membership in the Society is open to any student at the Saint Thomas University, one need not be a law student, as well as any interested faculty, alumni, or administration member.
	www.stu.edu /federalist-society-section-522.html (1204 words)

	People For the American Way - Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
		As a ideological proving ground for ultra-conservative activists, lawyers, and scholars, the Federalist Society has long served as a valuable professional network for those on the Right and has proved to be a valuable resource from which the Bush administration has culled not only numerous administration officials, but also judicial nominees.
		The Federalist Society is a well established network of right-wing lawyers, politicians, pundits, and judges.
		The Federalist Society has 15 different “practice groups” that focus on particular legal issues, such as civil rights and labor and employment law.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3149 (954 words)

	Who Are We? - Federalist Society
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.
		It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
		In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.
	www.federalistsociety.rutgers.edu /who.html (216 words)

	Welcome to the CULS Federalist Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the protection of individual freedom, free markets, and limited, constitutional government.
		Another purpose of the Society is to provide an alternative to the leftist orthodoxy which tends to prevail on many law school faculties and on the governing boards of many legal organizations such as the American Bar Association.
		Today, the Federalist Society is the leading force for serious, intellectual discussion and debate of constitutional and public policy questions in American law schools and in the legal profession.
	users.law.capital.edu /federalistsociety (250 words)

	IDS - Institute for Democracy Studies
		Federalist Society leaders have emerged as the top attorneys for George Bush in both the Florida Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States.
		With Federalist Society DC Chapter President Ted Olson as lead attorney before the Supreme Court, they are determined to win not just the Presidency, but to begin the process of institutionalizing a comprehensive agenda challenging every aspect of a democratic judicial system.*
		Targeting the courts, the law schools, and the American Bar Association, the Federalist Society has emerged as an increasingly powerful coalition of conservative and libertarian legal activists developing broad-based challenges to fundamental principles of constitutional law.
	www.institutefordemocracy.org /fedsoc.html (316 words)

	Questions over society - Newsday.com
		The White House has insisted for several days that Roberts doesn't recall joining or paying dues to the Federalist Society, an influential group of conservative lawyers and judges, and even called news organizations who reported that he was a member to correct the information in print.
		Membership in the Federalist Society would almost indisputably label a lawyer conservative, as the group's founding mission in 1982 was to combat what it viewed as creeping liberal activism in the nation's courts.
		In fact, Newsday reported that Roberts was a society member after several people familiar with his background told a reporter last week that he belonged to the group.
	www.newsday.com /news/printedition/nation/ny-uscort264358712jul26,0,5154517.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print (692 words)

	UCLA Federalist Society
		The Federalist Society is founded on the principles of liberty and limited government.
		The Federalist Society is not a political organization, and it does not advance any policy positions or endorse any candidates.
		The Federalist Society seeks to encourage discourse on the current state of the legal order, by hosting debates, talks, and other events with prominent law professors, judges, and legal scholars.
	www.law.ucla.edu /federalist (278 words)

	The American Spectator
		The matter of the handshake has proved to be a particular sudorific for Democrats, along with the frequent incidence of Federalist Society members among the President's appointees to the judiciary.
		In the Federalist Society there is a serious regard for the law and how a law might square with the Constitution.
		At the Federalist Society there is mainly an ongoing debate on the law and the role of courts.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=8509 (797 words)

	OpinionJournal - From the Heartland
		Bork is a co-chairman of the Federalist Society's board of advisers attracts considerable attention in the IDS attack.
		The Federalist Society was founded at Yale and quickly spread to Harvard and the University of Chicago.
		But the principles for which the Federalist Society says it stands are solidly anchored in the mainstream of American jurisprudence.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/tbray/?id=90000440 (919 words)

	National Federalist Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the seperation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.
		The Society seeks to promote a renewed awareness of these principles, and to further their application through its activities.
		The Federalist Society improves our present and future leaders' understanding of the precepts underlying American law, thereby, fostering the application of traditional legal principles.
	www.olemiss.edu /orgs/FEDERALISTS/nfsociety.html (237 words)

	Penn Federalist Society
		We are the Penn chapter of the Federalist Society.
		The Federalist Society seeks to educate the legal community through its programs and publications about how limited constitutional government based on the rule of law can have a positive effect on law and public policy.
		The Federalist Society takes its name from The Federalist (1787-88), which counted James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay among its contributors.
	www.law.upenn.edu /groups/fedsoc/website/about_us.html (159 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- From Federalist Society, praise for Alito and sense of relief that Miers' ...
		WASHINGTON – It was Samuel Alito's kind of crowd Thursday as the conservative lawyers of the Federalist Society opened their annual convention.
		Former Solicitor General Theodore Olson stepped in to deliver opening remarks at the convention when Federalist Society leaders and board members were invited to meet with Bush on Thursday morning at the White House, which is anxious to smooth over Federalist feathers ruffled by the Miers nomination.
		The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies was founded in 1982 as a debating society by students who believed professors at the top law schools were too liberal.
	signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20051110-1404-federalistsociety.html (823 words)

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