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Federalist Society

Our Purpose:

The Federalist Society for Law and 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.

The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.  This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.  It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, and law professors.

Link to the Federalist Society National Chapter:  http://www.fed-soc.org

The University of Memphis
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
1 North Front Street
Memphis, TN 38103-2189
(901) 678-2421

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