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Also Known As	Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Date	1982 - present
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Areas Of Involvement	legal profession • conservatism • libertarianism • textualism • constitutional originalism • American law
Related People	Antonin Scalia

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