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Gingergal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-03 10:48 PM
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3. Yes. Here is the info from their website.
<http://www.americanconstitutionsociety.org/>

Formed in Spring 2001, The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is a national organization of law students, law professors, judges, practicing lawyers and others. Through campus and lawyer chapters, speaking and media programs, public education efforts, publications, and other activities, we seek to revitalize and transform the legal debate, from law school classrooms, to federal courtrooms, to the congressional hearing rooms where judicial nominations are weighed. We want to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful -- and traditionally central -- place in American law. We want to strengthen the intellectual foundations of -- and the public case for -- a vision of the law in which these values are paramount, on such issues as: privacy; freedom of speech; federalism; antidiscrimination and affirmative action; gay rights; reproductive choice; disability rights; labor and consumer rights; protection of health, safety, and the environment; the criminal justice system; immigration; and international human rights.
We recognize the profound role that legal theory plays in shaping broader political debate and, ultimately, the daily lives of our citizens. Today, a conservative vision of law pervades?in academic scholarship, in judicial interpretation, in legislative action and Executive branch policies. The American Constitution Society aims to strengthen in American law a steadfast commitment to upholding the freedoms and the dignity of our people -- a commitment embodied by our Constitution and by the jurisprudence of such justices as John Marshall, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan, Potter Stewart, Thurgood Marshall, and Harry Blackmun.


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