Talk:American Constitution Society

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I propose modification of the reference to the Federalist Society because the Federalists isn't a "counterpart" to ACS; the organizations aren't affiliated or otherwise related, and there isn't much cross-over among members. Also, I'm not sure if the Federalists would describe themselves as conservative but rather as constitutional textualists or originalists. Plenty of members are libertarians and are not necessarily politically conservative.Res05e (talk) 14:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

The Constitution Society's own "Mission" page states: "In recent years, an activist conservative legal movement has gained influence – eroding these enduring values and presenting the law as a series of sterile abstractions. This new orthodoxy, which threatens to dominate our courts and our laws, does a grave injustice to the American vision." As such, the ACS was founded in 2001 expressly to counter the growing influence of the Federalist Society. If there should be any change, it should be to make it clearer that the ACS is a "liberal" organization in the description in addition to the existing modifier, "progressive." The Federalists do, in fact, describe themselves as "an organization of conservatives and libertarians" on their own website. Dbartramr (talk) 17:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The long and short of it is, this so-called "constitution society" is nothing more  or less than a cadre of lawyers dedicated to applying sophistry to oppose the constitutional limits to governmental power.   It should properly be called the anti-constitution society.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.255.206 (talk) 07:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

New York Times Profile
The New York Times has a profile on the American Constitution Society, which could be used to add some more information to this article, so it doesn't look so much like a press release.

&mdash; Steven Andrew Miller (talk) 04:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Lincoln misquoted: Is the ACS "the apex of the secularist ideology"?
"The American Constitution Society had omitted Lincoln’s reference to the United States as a nation under God from the address he gave at the dedication of the burial ground at Gettysburg", writes Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, in his article God and Gettysburg. "At the time, staring at the text, I wondered whether it was an innocent, inadvertent error—a typo, perhaps. It seemed more likely, though, that here is the apex of the secularist ideology that has attained a status not unlike that of religious orthodoxy among liberal legal scholars and political activists. Nothing is sacred, as it were—not even the facts of American history, not even the words spoken by Abraham Lincoln at the most solemn ceremony of our nation’s history." Asteriks (talk) 08:20, 18 August 2010 (UTC)