LETTER TO WILLIAM WEBSTER FROM ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

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THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
FOR LAW & PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
1625 EYE STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
202-822-8138
October 13, 1987
The Hon. William Webster
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Judge Webster:
I an writing to invite you to join me as a speaker at a
conference on "Foreign Affairs and the Constitution: The Roles of
Congress, the President, and the Court," sponsored by the
Federalist Society. The symposium will present a scholarly
discussion of the legal and constitutional issues involved in the
area of foreign affairs and covert actions, and it will reflect a
variety of viewpoints. The symposium will be held in
Washington, D.C., on November 6 and 7. Those who have already
agreed to participate include Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick,
Attorney General Edwin Meese, Lloyd Cutler, Irving Kristol, Abe
Sofaer, John Norton Moore, Ralph Winter, and Eugene Rostow.
The symposium will address the following topics:
- The first panel will examine the President's
powers as Commander-in-Chief vs. Congress'
War Power and Appropriations Power.
- The second will consider the Treaty Power and
executive powers to interpret and terminate
treaties and enter into executive agreements,
as well as the proper scope of "advice and
consent" in this context.
- The third will review the First Amendment and
National Security. It will inquire into what
special consideration or exemptions national
security interests require in defining the scope
of First Amendment rights. It will also examine
what the proper structure is for resolving this
issue, i.e., who judges?
- The fourth panel will address what the
Constitution means by executive power and
whether it means only the execution of the laws
or encompasses some of the residual powers of
the King of England as well. It will also
consider whether the President enjoys greater
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discretion in exercising his executive powers in
conducting foreign policy than in performing his
other functions, and whether the appropriate scope
of congressional oversight differs in examining
executive actions undertaken in this, as opposed
to other, fields. Finally, it will consider the
political question doctrine and the role envisaged
for the courts in this area.
The last panel will explore the virtues and
vices of democracy in general, and of American-
style democracy in particular, in conducting
foreign affairs.
We hope the conference will contribute to understanding the
role the Constitution establishes for each branch of our
government in the conduct of foreign affairs, and how the
government as a whole should operate. The proceedings of the
symposium will be published in a major law review.
I enclose a brochure briefly describing the Federalist
Society. Thank you for your consideration, and I very much hope
that you will be able to participate.
Sincerely,
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Symposium Chairman
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THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
FOR LAW & PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
1625 EYE STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
202-822-8138
October 13, 1987
The Hon. William Webster
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Judg~ster:
I am writing to invite you to join me as a speaker at a
conference on "Foreign Affairs and the Constitution: The Roles of
Congress, the President, and the Court," sponsored by the
Federalist Society. The symposium will present a scholarly
discussion of the legal and constitutional issues involved in the
area of foreign affairs and covert actions, and it will reflect a
variety of viewpoints. The symposium will be held in
Washington, D.C., on November 6 and 7. Those who have already
agreed to participate include Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick,
Attorney General Edwin Meese, Lloyd Cutler, Irving Kristol, Abe
Sofaer, John Norton Moore, Ralph Winter, and Eugene Rostow.
The symposium will address the following topics:
- The first panel will examine the President's
powers as Commander-in-Chief vs. Congress'
War Power and Appropriations Power.
- The second will consider the Treaty Power and
executive powers to interpret and terminate
treaties and enter into executive agreements,
as well as the proper scope of "advice and
consent" in this context.
The third will review the First Amendment and
National Security. It will inquire into what
special consideration or exemptions national
security interests require in defining the scope
of First Amendment rights. It will also examine
what the proper structure is for resolving this
issue, i.e., who judges?
The fourth panel will address what the
Constitution means by executive power and
whether it means only the execution of the laws
or encompasses some of the residual powers of
the King of England as well. It will also
consider whether the President enjoys greater
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discretion in exercising his executive powers in
conducting foreign policy than in performing his
other functions, and whether the appropriate scope
of congressional oversight differs in examining
executive actions undertaken in this, as opposed
to other, fields. Finally, it will consider the
political question doctrine and the role envisaged
for the courts in this area.
- The last panel will explore the virtues and
vices of democracy in general, and of American-
style democracy in particular, in conducting
foreign affairs.
We hope the conference will contribute to understanding the
role the Constitution establishes for each branch of our
government in the conduct of foreign affairs, and how the
government as a whole should operate. The proceedings of the
symposium will be published in a major law review.
I enclose a brochure briefly describing the Federalist
Society. Thank you for your consideration, and I very much hope
that you will be able to participate.
Zbignieyb Brzezinski
Symposium Chairman
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
AND THE CONSTITUTION:
The Roles of Congress,
the President, and the Courts
A Symposium
presented by
THE
FEDERALIST
SOCIETY
Washington, DC
November 6 & 7, 1987
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Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Symposium Chairman
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs, 1977-81
Counselor, Center for Strategic
and International Studies
Mr. Lloyd N. Cutler
Counsel to the President, 1979-80
Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Featuring:
Hon. Griffin B. Bell
Attorney General, 1977-79
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth
Circuit, 1961-76
Partner, King & Spaulding
Hon. Deane J. Kirkpatrick
Ambassador to the United Nations,
1981-85
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute
Mr. Irving Kristol
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute
Editor, The Public Interest
Hon. Edwin Meese III
The Attorney General of the United
States
Prof. John Norton Moore
University of Virginia Law School
Director, Center for Law and National
Security
Hon. Wm. Bradford Reynolds
Assistant Attorney General for Civil
Rights
Prof. Eugene V. Rostow
National Defense University
Professor Emeritus, Yale Law School
Mr. Abraham D. Sofaer
Legal Adviser, Department of State
And Many Others
". . . the Federalist Society is waging the
war of ideas on behalf of the ideals of
our founding fathers. Your work is
already having an impact. Keep it up."
President Ronald Reagan
"In order to become an enduring
governing class, the conservatives must
produce a surfeit of young cadres-
young people who are both committed
and competent. In 1982, an
organization materialized that precisely
provides what the nascent conservative
new class requires, the Federalist
Society, composed of law students and
young lawyers."
The Washington Post
Sept. 22, 1985
". . . the convention of the Federalist
Society was a show of intellectual
firepower and numerical force by
conservatives who have already begun
to change the terms of legal debate ..."
The New York Times
February 1, 1987
". . . the Federalist Society has
expanded beyond the law school
campus to become a remarkably
influential force in national policy-
making."
American Lawyer
June, 1986
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"Can't you help to find a way to
establish, under the law, with
objectivity, what the proper balance is?
For example, did the War Powers Act
encroach too far on presidential power?
Are the proliferating congressional
committee hearings compatible with the
view of the founding fathers? Can the
Congress properly dictate the
micromanagement of foreign policy by
an increased use of subcommittees and
the use of the appropriations process?
Or, to shift the focus now from the other
side, should an administration be
required in advance of operations to
consult or advise Congress?
"These are key questions, and if there
was ever a group that has the
intellectual facility to address them, it's
this one. And I hope that somewhere
along the line, maybe not at this
particular conference, as time goes by,
that you'll find a way to help us. Not
just the Administration, not just the
Congress, but I'd say America as a
whole, by finding the answers to these
very complex questions."
Vice President George Bush
Federalist Society
National Lawyers Convention
January 30, 1987
N
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THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
presents
FOREIGN AFFAIRS and the CONSTITUTION:
The Roles of Congress, The President, and The Courts
November 6 and 7, 1987
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC
Hon. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Ambassador to the United Nations, 1981-85
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
The President's Power as Commander-in-Chief vs.
Congress' War Power and Appropriations Power
The President is Commander-in-Chief of the armed
forces, but only Congress can declare war and appropriate
funds for the military. Can Congress use those powers to
prevent presidential initiative, or alternatively, when can
the President act without congressional authorization? Is
the War Powers Act constitutional?
The Treaty Power
The Constitution gives the President the power to make
treaties, with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
How much power does the President have to act on his
own, and when must he consult the Senate? Can the
Senate use its function to dictate policy in this area?
Prof. Eugene V. Rostow
National Defense University
Professor Emeritus, Yale Law School
What the Constitution Means By Executive Power
The Constitution vests the "Executive Power" solely in
the President. What is the proper scope of the executive
power in the conduct of foreign affairs? Does it include
any of the residual powers of the King of England, or is it
limited to the power to execute the laws passed by
Congress?
Schedule
Friday, November 6
12:00-1:00
Registration
5:00-5:45
Address
1:00-1:30
Opening
(Amb. Jeane
Remarks
Kirkpatrick)
1:30-3:00
PanelI
6:00-7:00
Reception
3:15-4:45
Panel II
7:00-10:00 Banquet
Accommodations may be arranged directly with the Grand Hyatt
Washington, 1000 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001,
telephone [phone]. Be sure to ask for the special rate
for the symposium. Reservations made after October 7 are
subject to room availability.
For more information, or to register, please contact:
The Federalist Society
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
[phone]
Hon. Edwin Meese III
Attorney General of the I Inited States
The First Amendment and National Security
Certain sensitive operations of the executive branch
require secrecy in order to be effective, but Congress, the
press, and the public assert a right to know what the
executive branch is doing. Is there, or should there be an
exemption from usual First Amendment freedoms? What
is the proper structure for determining when to impose
secrecy?
Hon. Griffin B. Bell
Attorney General of the United States, 1977-79
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1961-76
Partner, King & Spaulding
The Virtues and Vices of Democracy in Conducting
Foreign Affairs
What is the proper balance between the need for
secrecy and dispatch and the need for public review of
foreign policy in a democratic government? What
pressures lead to the elevation of the special interests of
factions above the broader national interest?
Mr. Irving Kristol
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Editor, The Public Interest
Saturday, November 7
9:30-11:30 Panel III
5:30-6:00
Address
12:00-2:00
Luncheon
(Hon. Edwin
and Address
Meese)
2:15-3:45
Panel IV
6:00-8:00
Closing
4:00-5:30
Panel V
Reception
Registration for the symposium is $40.00 ($20.00 for members
of the Federalist Society). After October 15, the registration fee
will be $50.00 for non-members and $30.00 for members. The
cost of the banquet is $35.00. Pre-registration, for both the
symposium and the banquet, is requested.
One year's membership in the Federalist Society is $5.00 for
students, $10.00 for professors, and $25.00 for lawyers and
others. Members are notified of all events and receive the
Federalist Society newsletter and the Harvard Journal of Law and
Public Policy.
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
". . . a potent voice for conservative legal thinking
in law schools and in the Government."
The New York Times, July 23, 1986
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About the Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public
Policy Studies is an organization of conser-
vative and libertarian law students, lawyers,
and other members of the legal community
who are 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 cen-
tral to our Constitution, and that it is emphat-
ically the province and the duty of the judi-
ciary to say what the law is, not what it should
be. Through its activities, the Society seeks
both to promote an awareness of these prin-
ciples and to further their application.
The Federalist Society
Directors:
E. Spencer Abraham
Steven G. Calabresi
Peter D. Keisler
Lee S. Liberman
David M. McIntosh
Executive Director:
Eugene B. Meyer
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J. MADISON
THE
FEDERALIST
SOCIETY
for law
public policy studies
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THE
FEDERALIST
SOCIETY
for law
public policy studies
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Chief justice William Rehnquist answers a student's question during
a meeting with the University of Chicago chapter of the Federalist Society.
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"The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they
should be disposed to exercise WILL instead of JUDG-
MENT, the consequence would be the substitution of their
pleasure to that of the legislative body."
Purpose
Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated
by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and
uniform society. While some members of the academic community have
dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously
with hand indeed as if they were) the law.
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. 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. In working to achieve these
goals the Society has created a conservative intellectual network that
extends to all levels of the legal community.
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National Symposia
The Federalist Society was founded in April, 1982, when a group of
law students from Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and Yale
organized a symposium on "Federalism: Legal and Political Ramifica-
tions" at Yale Law School. Among the topics discussed were the foun-
dations of federalism, the possible use of the national government for
conservative ends, an economic theory of federal jurisdiction, constitu-
tional conventions, the Hatch abortion amendment, and the politics of
returning power to the states.
Since then, the national symposium has become an annual event. In
1983, it was held at the University of Chicago on the topic: "Judicial
Activism: Problems and Responses;" in 1984, on "Legal Education and
the Role of the Lawyer in Society," at Harvard; in 1985, on "Equality and
the Law" at Georgetown; in 1986, at Stanford Law School on "The First
Amendment;" and in 1987 at the University of Chicago on "The Crisis
in Legal Theory and the Revival of Classical Jurisprudence."
Senator Orrin Hatch delivers the keynote address at the 1985 National
Symposium on "Equality and the Law," at Georgetown.
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Justice Antonin Scalia addresses the Federalist Society National
Convention on the "Methods of Statutory Construction." Other panelists
include (from the left) Professor Laurence Tribe, Senator Orrin Hatch,
Judge Frank Easterbrook, and fudge Laurence Silberman.
Speakers at these symposia have included Nobel Laureate Milton
Friedman; Justice Antonin Scalia; Judges Robert Bork, Frank Easterbrook,
Richard Posner, Ralph Winter, John Noonan, Jr., and Douglas Ginsburg;
Senator Orrin Hatch; Deans Henry Manne, Maurice Holland, and Geoffrey
Stone; Professors Paul Bator, Edmund Kitch, Walter Berns, Lino Graglia,
Richard Epstein, Burt Neuborne, Duncan Kennedy, Laurence Tribe, and
Phillip Areeda; Solicitor Generals Charles Fried and Rex Lee. These sym-
posia have provided a unique opportunity for law students from across
the nation to meet with many of today's most important conservative
legal thinkers and activists. Attendance has averaged nearly 500 law
students, lawyers, and faculty. In their first six years, the symposia have
attracted over 2,000 people from over 100 law schools. A transcript of the
proceedings of each of them is available in special issues of the Harvard
Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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Bicentennial of the Constitution
and Other Symposia
The Society has planned two major symposia to celebrate the Bicen-
tennial of the Constitution. The first was on "Federalism and Constitu-
tional Checks and Balances: A Safeguard of Minority and Individual
Rights" in Chicago. Speakers included Former Attorney General Griffin
Bell, Judges John Noonan, Jr., Abner Mikva, Nathaniel Jones, and Roger
Miner and Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds to
name a few.
The second symposium will be held October 16-18, 1987 in Arlington,
Virginia on "Economic Liberties and the Constitution." Speakers will
include judges Frank Easterbrook and Stephen Breyer and Professors George
Priest and Richard Epstein.
The Society also assists in the planning and staging of regional con-
ferences which are held throughout the year. In conjuction with the
Institute for Humane Studies, regional symposia were held at Wake Forest
University, New York University, University of Texas, and University of
Indiana-Bloomington, on Law and Philosophy.
The Society held its first annual Lawyers Convention in Washington,
D.C., in January of 1987 before an audience of nearly 1,000. Some speakers
included Vice President George Bush, Attorney General Edwin Meese,
Justice Antonin Scalia, and Judge Robert Bork. In his telephone address
to the banquet, President Reagan urged the Society to continue to seek
understanding of the fundamental principles in our Constitution that
protect the blessings of liberty for all.
judge Robert Bork (U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit) and /udge
Thomas Gee (U. S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit) at the 1985 National
Symposium.
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Speakers Bureau
One of the key Federalist Society programs is the Speakers Bureau.
The cornerstone of the program is the John M. Olin Lectures in Law. Last
year this lecture series sponsored 45 speeches and debates at chapters
around the country. A partial list of speakers during the first four years
of the program includes Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Justice Antonin
Scalia; Judges Kenneth Starr, Alex Kozinski, and Malcolm Wilkey of the
U.S. Court of Appeals; Solicitor General Charles Fried; Professors Ernest
van den Haag, Richard Epstein, Paul Bator, Walter Berns, and Lino Graglia;
and Mr. Clarence Pendleton. In addition, our chapters sponsored many
other meetings, debates, and discussions. The Society is pleased to assist
chapters in obtaining other speakers they wish to invite.
Judge Ralph Winter chats with Janice Calabresi, Federalist Society
Chapter head.
The national journal of the Federalist Society is the Harvard Journal
of Law and Public Policy. In addition to its Harvard editors, the Journal
has a national editorial board comprised of other Federalist Society mem-
bers. The Journal encourages students and faculty members from other
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schools to submit notes and articles. The Society also publishes a quarterly
newsletter, The Federalist Paper, which is edited by our Northwestern
University chapter. In addition, the Society publishes a series of Occa-
sional Papers on issues of contemporary interest within the law. The most
recent of these, The Great Debate-Interpreting our Written Constitu-
tion, a collection of speeches by Attorney General Meese, Justices Brennan
and Stevens, Judge Bork, and President Reagan, was sent to all constitu-
tional law professors and federal judges as well as to students and faculty
at top law schools throughout the country.
Upcoming Symposia
Oct. 16-18, 1987-Bicentennial Celebration Symposium-Arlington, VA
November, 1987-Foreign Policy Convention
February, 1988 -Seventh Annual National Symposium
May, 1988 -Second Annual Lawyers Convention
Other Activities
Chapters have emphasized different kinds of activities, including
speaker meetings, group discussion, local faculty debates, public interest
research and litigation, and publishing newsletters. The Harvard Society
publishes the nation's only student-run conservative law review, the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Other chapters have either been formed or are being started at approx-
imately 100 law schools. Any group of law students who share the Soci-
ety's general principles is welcome to affiliate with the Society. A booklet
on how to start a student group is available from the national organization
to anyone interested in starting a chapter. Individual students, faculty
members, and practitioners are welcome to join.
Members will receive subscriptions to the Federalist Society news-
letter and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and also are
eligible for scholarship money to attend conferences.
The Federalist Society Lawyers Division sponsors educational pro-
grams for recent graduates and members of the legal community. In
addition to the scholarly programs, the Lawyers Division provides an
opportunity for lawyers around the country interested in the Society's
principles to meet regularly to discuss these principles and activities
which further them.
Monthly luncheons in Washington, D.C., attract about 150 admin-
istration officials, Congressional aides, court clerks, and lawyers in private
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practice. A meeting discussing problems besetting the Harvard Law School
drew 250 alumni to the Harvard Club of New York and served as a catalyst
for the New York City chapter which has since sponsored a series of
lectures and debates. The Society also has Lawyers Division chapters in
Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia, and chapters are being formed
in Denver, Seattle, Houston, Louisiana, and New Mexico.
Chapters
Chapters exist at the following 52 law schools: Alabama, Arizona,
Arizona State, Berkeley, Boston, Buffalo, Brigham Young, Campbell, Cath-
olic, Chicago, Colorado, Columbia, Delaware, Dickinson, Drake, Duke,
Florida State, Fordham, George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown,
Georgia, Harvard, Idaho, Indiana/Bloomingon, Lewis and Clark, LSU,
McGeorge, Michigan, Nebraska, New York University, New York Law
School, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, USC,
St. John's, Stanford, Stetson, Syracuse, Temple, Texas, Tulane, UCLA,
Virginia, Washington, Washington University, Washington and Lee, Wil-
liam and Mary, Wisconsin, and Yale.
Efforts are underway to start chapters at the following schools: Akron,
American, Baltimore, Brooklyn, UC-Davis, Cardozo, Connecticut, Cooley,
Creighton, Cumberland, Dayton, Denver, DePaul, Detroit, Emory, Florida,
Golden Gate, Hastings, Houston, Kansas, Chicago Kent College of Law-
Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, Loyola-Los Angeles, Maryland,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Monterey, New England,
North Dakota, Northern Illinois, Ohio State, Oregon, Pace, Rutgers/Cam-
den, Rutgers/Newark, San Diego, Seton Hall, Southwestern, St. Louis,
St. Thomas, Suffolk, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Tulsa, Utah, Valparaiso,
Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Wayne State, West Virginia, Western, and Wil-
liam Mitchell.
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Statement of Principles
The legal profession and law schools are currently strongly dominated
by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and
uniform society. While some members of the legal community have
dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously
with (and indeed as if they were) the law.
The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies is a group of
conservatives and libertarians interested in the state of the legal order.
We believe that principles and legal rules strongly influence the direction
of societal development and in so doing can secure or destroy individual
rights and liberties. From a position of shared values, the group's purpose
is to investigate the role of law as one of the great organizing forces of
our society, and to participate in that shaping process.
We start from the following principles:
-That the state exists to preserve individual freedom;
-That economic and political liberties are inextricably intertwined;
-That the separation of governmental powers is central to our Con-
stitution;
-That it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to
say what the law is, not what it should be;
-That this task of objective interpretation is not so far beyond man's
grasp that we should despair, and, in the name of "realism," fall
back on prejudice in making judicial determinations;
-That the constitutional scheme did not contemplate the imposition
by fiat of the legislative preferences of members of the judiciary,
under the bannner of "societal evolution;"
-That this type of judicial legislating, being insulated from the check
of popular support, has been a key instrument in the expansion of
federal governmental power;
-That this expansion has been at the expense of individuals' abilities
to control their own destinies, and of intermediate institutions
such as families, churches, personal property, and states, which
helped to shield people from the government's full force;
-And that the true purpose of the legal order is to ensure that the
power conferred upon the state is used to secure people's lives and
goods, the true purpose of an independent judiciary is to prevent
the rigging of the legal order into an extension of the sovereign's
will, and that neither legal order nor judiciary is presently serving
these purposes.
The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles
and to further their application through its activities.
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What People Are Saying About the Federalist Society
. the Federalist Society is waging the war of ideas on behalf of the ideals of our
founding fathers. Your work is already having an impact. Keep it up ...
President Ronald Reagan
National Lawyers Convention
Washington, D.C.
... you [The Federalist Society[ have already made, in your rather short life a
considerable, an indispensable contribution to the dialogue about the rule of law
which lies at the heart of the great freedoms that I am convinced many of us take
for granted every single day of our lives. And I salute you for this intellectual vigor
in framing the issues, and also for the contributions that ... you've made to this
administration.
Vice President George Bush
National Lawyers Convention
Washington, D.C.
I do congratulate the Federalist Society on the tremendous accomplishments that
have been made. I think I can say that objectively as an outsider who was not in
on the founding of the Federalist Society.
Attorney General Edwin Meese
National Lawyers Convention
Washington, D.C.
In order to become an enduring governing class, the conservatives must produce
a surfeit of young cadres-young people who are both committed and competent.
In 1982, an organization materialized that precisely provides what the nascent
conservative new class requires, the Federalist Society, composed of law students
and young lawyers.
The Washington Post
September 25, 1985
The society's membership includes the best and the brightest of the Nation's
judges, lawyers, and law students.
William S. Broomfield
House of Representatives
... the Federalist Society has expanded beyond the law school campus to become
a remarkably influential force in national policy making.
American Lawyer
June, 1986
... the convention of the Federalist Society was a show of intellectual firepower
and numerical forces by conservatives who have already begun to change the terms
of legal debate and to revive legal doctrines that were for decades dismissed as
historical curiosities.
The New York Times
February 1, 1987
The Federalist Society has become a potent voice for conservative legal thinking
in law schools and in the Government.
The New York Times
July 23, 1986
By providing a forum for such ... ideas as adhering to the Constitution as written,
the Federalists may well have changed the intellectual momentum in America's
law schools.
The National Review
September 26, 1986
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They promote debate, and that is a good thing. Their ideas are absolutely legitimate
ideas. They are respectable ideas that need to be debated, and that is the valuable
function that the society serves. I don't happen to agree with many of their
conclusions, but the debate is important and valid.
Geoffrey Stone
Dean, University of Chicago
Law School
Student Lawyer
March, 1987
The Federalist Society has evolved from a group of libertarian law students chatting
over dinner into the right's primary instrument for capturing the legal establish-
ment.
The New Republic
December 1, 1986
It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause for hope, however. What is an
enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up
the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent and unpretentious,
these are young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.
Thomas Sowell
Hoover Institute
The Washington, D.C.-based legal society is a little less than five years old, but it
has become a powerful influence in contemporary legal thought.
The Washington Times
January 30, 1987
They are] people who care very deeply, work very hard and wrestle a lot with these
things ... It's a good thing, not a bad thing ...
Anthony Podesta
People for the American Way
I also want to congratulate the Federalist Society for putting this program on. I
can't recall a time when I've taken part in a conference on the Constitution where
people have been as willing to leave their ideological and social activism at the
door and talk about the document. I think it's very healthy.
Abner J. Mikva
U.S. Court of Appeals
D.C. Circuit
Federalist Society Symposium
Chicago, Illinois
November 15, 1986
If the Reagan revolution is to outlive the incumbent's term in the White House,
it will need to find some heirs, heirs who are both conservative and ambitious for
high office. On the last weekend in January, Washington played host to 500 of
them. They were there for a conference of the Federalist Society ...
The Economist
February 7, 1987
... one thing can be said with certainty about the Federalist Society: it has been
the right organization at the right time, an academic legal voice in the era of the
Reagan Revolution. Consequently, it retains an uncanny ability for a largely stu-
dent-oriented organization to attract big names-liberal, conservative, and in
between-to participate in its activities. And on campus, those activities are
greeted cordially, even by academics who disagree with many of their conservative
views, because their debating forums and symposia have begun to reawaken aca-
demic debate.
Student Lawyer
March, 1987
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Some Speakers at Federalist Society Events
Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Chief Justice Warren Burger
Justice Antonin Scalia
Hon. George Bush
Hon. Edwin Meese III
Hon. Malcolm Baldridge
Hon. Griffin Bell
Hon. William Bennett
Hon. Orrin Hatch
Hon. Strom Thurmond
Hon. Henry Hyde
Judge Robert Bork
Judge Pasco Bowman
Judge Thomas Gee
Judge Douglas Ginsburg
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Judge Patrick Higginbotham
Judge Nathaniel Jones
Judge Alex Kozinski
Judge Abner Mikva
Judge John Noonan, Jr.
Judge Richard Posner
Judge Stephen Reinhardt
Judge Laurence Silberman
Judge Kenneth Starr
Judge Malcolm Wilkey
Judge Stephen Williams
Judge Ralph Winter
Judge Morris Arnold
Chief Judge Loren Smith
Chief Justice Grover Rees III
Justice Stanley Mosk
Mr. Floyd Abrams
Mr. Bruce Ackerman
Mr. John Agresto
Mr. Randy Barnett
Mr. Norman Barry
Mr. Paul Bator
Mr. Robert Bennett
Mr. Raoul Berger
Mr. Walter Berns
Ms. Lillian Bevier
Mr. Allan Bloom
Mr. Philip Bobbitt
Hon. John Bolton
Ms. Lea Brilmayer
Hon. Arnold I. Burns
Mr. Stephen Carter
Mr. Paul G. Cassell
Ms. Linda Chavez
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
The Vice President
The Attorney General
Secretary of Commerce
Former U.S. Attorney General
Secretary of Education
U.S. Senator, Utah
U.S. Senator, South Carolina
U.S. Congressman, Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
U.S. District Court, Western District of
Arkansas
U.S. Court of Claims
High Court of American Samoa
California Supreme Court
Cahill, Gordon & Reindel
Professor, Columbia University Law School
Deputy Director, NEH
Professor, IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law
Professor, Buckingham University
Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Dean, Northwestern Law School
Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Professor, Georgetown University
Professor, University of Virginia Law School
Professor, University of Chicago
Professor, University of Texas Law School
Assistant Attorney General, Office of
Legislative Affairs
Professor, Yale Law School
Deputy Attorney General
Professor, Yale Law School
Associate Deputy Attorney General
Former Director of the Office of Public
Liaison
Dean, University of California, Berkeley Law
School
Partner, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather &
Geraldson
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Mr. Robert Cord
Mr. T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Mr. Wayne Drinkwater
Mr. John Hart Ely
Mr. Richard Epstein
Mr. Edward Erler
Mr. Bruce Fein
Hon. Charles Fried
Mr. Milton Friedman
Mr. Nathan Glazer
Mr. Lino Graglia
Mr. Morton Halperin
Mr. John Harrison
Mr. Maurice Holland
Mr. Henry Holzer
Mr. Michael Horowitz
Mr. Harold Hyman
Mr. Phillip Johnson
Mr. Duncan Kennedy
Mr. Michael Kinsley
Mr. William Kristol
Mr. Anthony Kronman
Hon. Rex Lee
Mr. Saul Levmore
Mr. Henry Manne
Mr. John Maxwell
Mr. Michael McConnell
Mr. Joseph Morris
Mr. Michael Moore
Mr. Charles Murray
Mr. Robert Nagel
Mr. Burt Neuborne
Mr. Theodore Olson
Mr. Thomas Pangle
Mr. Gary Peller
Hon. Clarence Pendleton
Mr. Jeremy Rabkin
Hon. William Bradford Reynolds
Mr. Charles Rice
Mr. Steven Ross
Mr. Alan Schwartz
Mr. Hal Scott
Mr. Thomas Sowell
Mr. Thomas Smith
Mr. Geoffrey Stone
Mr. Cass Sunstein
Mr. Peter Strauss
Mr. Laurence Tribe
Mr. Ernest van den Haag
Hon. Richard Willard
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal
Policy
Professor, Northeastern University
Assistant to the President for Domestic
Affairs
Partner, Lake, Tindall, Hunger & Thackston
Dean, Stanford Law School
Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Professor, California State University
Heritage Foundation
Solicitor General
Nobel Laureate
Professor, Harvard University
Professor, University of Texas Law School
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties
Union
Associate Deputy Attorney General
Dean, University of Oregon Law School
Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Partner, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin
Professor, Rice University
Professor, Boalt Hall Law School
Professor, Harvard Law School
Editor, New Republic
Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary
of Education; Professor, Kennedy School
of Government
Professor, Yale Law School
Partner, Sidley & Austin, former Solicitor
General of the United States
Professor, University of Virginia Law School
Dean, George Mason Law School
Executive Director, Campaign for Prosperity
Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Chief of Staff, USIA
Professor, University of Southern California
Law School
Manhattan Institute
Professor, University of Colorado Law School
Professor, New York University Law School
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Professor, University of Toronto
Professor, University of Virginia Law School
Chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Professor, Cornell University
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
and Counselor to the Attorney General
Professor, Notre Dame University Law School
Counsel for the House of Representatives
Professor, University of Southern California
School of Law
Professor, Harvard Law School
Hoover Institution
Professor, University of California-Davis Law
School
Dean, University of Chicago Law School
Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Professor, Columbia University Law School
Professor, Harvard Law School
Professor, Fordham University Law School
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division
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membership Norm
permanent telephone school/business
Federalist Society activities I am interested in:
^ writing ^ speaker meetings
^ editing ^ symposia
^ others
Membership in other legal or political organizations (e.g. ABA)
^ I'm interested in forming a chapter at my school
^ Other law students or lawyers who might be interested in Federalist
Society
Name School Address Telephone
Enclosed please find my annual membership dues for ^ $5.00 (student);
^ $10.00 (faculty); ^ $25.00 (lawyer); ^ $25.00 (other)
Members will receive subscriptions to the Federalist Society newsletter
and the Harvard journal of Law & Public Policy, and will be kept informed
of all Federalist Society events.
Please make your check payable to:
The Federalist Society for
Law & Public Policy Studies
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
[phone]
^ I would like more information about the Federalist Society for Law &
Public Policy Studies.
^ I am enclosing a tax deductible contribution of $
to the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies.
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Federalist Society For Law
and Public Policy Studies
1625 Eye Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
The Hon. William Webster
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
....... lip"
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