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Article: Federalist Society Quickly Comes of Age;Conservative Legal Group Shows Its Clout
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- The Washington Post
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- February 1, 1987
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Leaders of the Federalist Society, a 5-year-old conservative
legal organization, call it an educational group, a debating club, a
think-tank. Society members and followers gather-as they did this
weekend at the Mayflower Hotel-to listen to law professors talk about
such cerebral matters as "the premise of holistic synthesis."
But any doubts about the Federalist's political firepower
evaporated at its first annual lawyers' convention here this weekend,
where a parade of Washington's most powerful came to extol the
society's virtues.
The first speaker on Friday afternoon was Vice President Bush,
who praised the organization and noted that one of his aides was a
member. President Reagan ...