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- Title: Safety and Freedom: Common Concerns for Conservatives, Libertarians, And Civil Libertarians (Twenty-Fourth Federalist Society Student Symposium, Law and Freedom)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 301 KB
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I am happy to address this Symposium, and to be a regular speaker at many Federalist Society forums. I always start such presentations by reminding all Federalist Society audiences of your organization's libertarian founding principles, which could come straight from the ACLU's Policy Guide, and which are directly relevant to this panel's topic. Your mission statement's opening words proclaim: "The Federalist Society ... is founded on the principle[] that the state exists to preserve freedom.... The Society seeks ... reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty...." (1) Also key to this panel's topic, your mission statement declares "that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution...." (2) In 1994, I was on a Federalist Society panel with one of your founding gurus, Irving Kristol. As usual, I recited these libertarian tenets of your group, and it sent him into a state of shock. Our discussion was published, so let me read you his exact response:/p pre