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#The Cornell Law School Federalist Society

Welcome

The Cornell Law School Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservative and libertarian law students interested in the current state of the legal order. The Society 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 and 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, law students and professors. In working to achieve these goals, the Society is part of a large conservative and libertarian Federalist Society intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.