People

Individuals

Inclusion on that page does not indicate we consider the person strictly faithful to the Constitution according to the standards of Jefferson and Madison, only that they deviate less than most.

Current Elected officials

• Rand Paul — Member, U.S. Senate (R-KY). Also see his alternate site.
• Ted Cruz — Member, U.S. Senate (R-TX). Also see this alternate site.
• Mike Lee — Member, U.S. Senate (R-UT). Also see this alternate site.
• Justin Amash — Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-MI 3). Also see this alternate site.

Current candidates for elected office (to be provided later in campaign season)

Recent candidates for elected office

• Ron Paul — Former member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-TX 14th), former Libertarian candidate for president. Also see this alternate site.
• Michael Badnarik — Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. House of Representatives.
• Bob Smither — Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. House of Representatives.
• Rock Howard — Libertarian Party nominee for Texas Senate.
• Gary Nolan — Candidate for Libertarian Party nomination for U.S. President.
• Richard Campagna — Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. Vice-President.
• Alan Keyes — Candidate for Republican nomination for President in 1996, 2000.
• Howard Phillips — Candidate for Constitution Party nomination for President.
• L. Neil Smith — Candidate for Libertarian Party nomination for President.
• Don Gorman — Candidate for Libertarian Party nomination for President and the Constitution Party of California
• Ken Payne — Republican nominee for U.S. Representative, California 5th Dist., against Democrat incumbent.
• Mike Rothfeld — Candidate for Republican Party nomination for U.S. Representative, Virginia 1st District.
• Doug Schafer — Candidate for Washington State Supreme Court. Reformist attorney.
• Lawrence Cranberg — Candidate for Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Retired physicist. Advocate for older persons.
• N. Stephen Kinsella — Libertarian candidate for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 2002. Lawyer in Houston, Texas.
• Chuck Baldwin — Constitution Party nominee for U.S. President 2008.
• Michael Peroutka — Constitution Party nominee for U.S. President 2004.
• Thomas Spielbauer — Candidate for Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County, California, 2002.
• James P. Gray — California judge, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate from California.
• Gary McLeod — Candidate for 6th Congressional District, South Carolina.

Former elected officials

• Bob Smith — Member, U.S. Senate (I-NH).
• J.C. Watts, Jr. — Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-OK 4th). Heads American Renewal PAC
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage — Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-ID 1st).

Judges

We have found no judges anywhere who are consistently faithful to the Constitution, but it seemed appropriate to include the least unfaithful of those available, based on some of their opinions or writings.

• Clarence Thomas — Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court. For his opinion in the Lopez case.
• Diane Sykes — Judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. For her opinions on several issues.
• Janice Rogers Brown — Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court. For her speech before the Federalist Society, U. of Chicago, April 20, 2000.
• Edith Jones — Judge, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. For her talk on judicial corruption.
• Sam Cummings — Judge, United States District Court for the Fifth Circuit. For his opinion in the Emerson case.
• Neil Gorsuch — Judge, United States District Court for the Tenth Circuit. For his originalist approach to constitutional interpretation, his support for the nondelegation doctrine, and for his skepticism of the Chevron Doctrine that courts defer to administrative agencies in the interpretation of statutes.
  
• Andrew Kleinfeld — Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
• Alex Kozinski — Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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• David Sentelle — Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Author of "Lopez Speaks, Is Anyone Listening?".

Lawyers, law professors, historians, and scholars

• Akhil Reed Amar — Professor, Yale Law School. Author of The Bill of Rights.
• Joyce O. Appleby — Professor of History, UCLA. Author of numerous publications.
• Hadley Arkes — Professor, Amherst College. Author of The Return of George Sutherland.
• Lance Banning — Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Author of The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic.
• Randy E. Barnett — Professor at Georgetown University School of Law, author of The Structure of Liberty.
• William (Will) Baude — Professor at University of Chicago School of Law, author of "Rethinking the Federal Eminent Domain Power" 122 Yale Law Journal 1738 (2013).
• Larry Becraft — Lawyer who has won some landmark legal reform cases, especially on income tax issues.
• Herman Belz — Professor of Constitutional History, University of Maryland.
• Robert G. Bernhoft — Leading defense lawyer for several income tax cases.
• David E. Bernstein — Professor, George Mason University School of Law.
• Roger Bernstein — Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, now in private practice.
  
• James Bopp, Jr. — Lawyer, founder of James Madison Center for Free Speech, leading defender against abuses of "campaign reform" statutes.
• Mark Brewer — Was candidate for Republican nomination for U.S. Representative, Texas 7th Dist.
• Michael Caddell — Defense counsel for the Davidians abused in theWaco incident.
• Steven Calabresi — Professor of Constitutional Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Co-Founder of the Federalist Society.
• Ramsey Clark — Former U.S. Attorney General. Represented Davidian survivors. Founder of International Action Center.
• Angelo Codevilla — Fellow at Claremont Institute, Professor at Boston University..
• Ann Coulter — Sometimes abrasive, but some of her books are excellent scholarship.
• Catherine Crier — Former judge and television journalist, author of The Case Against lawyers.
• Virginia Cropsey — Extensive work on Fourth and Fifth Amendment issues.
• Frank Cross, Professor of Business Law, University of Texas at Austin.
• Brannon P. Denning — Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, IL. Author of several important articles on the Second Amendment and a book on the Commerce Clause. See Can the Simple Cite Be Trusted?
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo — Professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland, adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute. Author of an interesting paper on the 14th Amendment.
• James J. Duane — Professor, Regent School of Law.
• Einer Elhauge — Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
  
• Richard A. Epstein — Professor, U. of Chicago Law School. Author of Takings, which argues all New Deal legislation was unconstitutional.
• Bruce Fein — Lawyer, DC, writes on constitutional issues. Founder of American Freedom Agenda.
• Mark Ferran — Lawyer who has done extensive work on property rights.
• Louis Fisher — Scholar in Residence at the Constitution Project. Much work on separation of powers.
• Elizabeth Price Foley — Institute for Justice Chair in Constitutional Litigation and Professor of Law at Florida International University (FIU) College of Law. Author of The Tea Party: Three Principles.
• David Forte — Professor, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law.
• Matthew J. Franck — Professor and Chairman of Political Science, Radford University.
• Lino A. Graglia, Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
• Michael S. Greve, Chairman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Author of The Upside-Down Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2012).
• David Grossack — Constitutional attorney based in Massachusetts.
• Stephen P. Halbrook — Lawyer specializing in constitutional cases, especially involving the Second Amendment.
• Marci A. Hamilton — Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, author of Representation and Nondelegation: Back to Basics, 20 Cardozo L. Rev. 807 (1999).
• Ronald Hamowy — Professor Emeritus of History, University of Alberta. Editor, Cato's Letters: Essays on Liberty by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.
• David T. Hardy — Lawyer specializing in constitutional cases, especially involving the Second Amendment.
• John C. Harrison — Professor, U. Virginia School of Law.
• John Hasnas — Associate Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.
• Sean Healy — Lawyer strong on constitutional cases, such as the Emerson case.
• James L. Hirsen — Has site First Liberties. Author of The Coming Collision: Global Law vs. U.S. Liberties and Government by Decree: From President to Dictator Through Executive Orders.
• Brian J. Hooper — President of Harvard Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy.
• Harry Jaffa — Professor, Claremont McKenna College.
• Daniel B. Klein — Professor of Economics, George Mason Uniuversity.
• Kurt Lash — Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, author of "The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment".
• Gary S. Lawson — Professor, Boston University Law School.
• Lawrence Lessig — Professor, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; cyberlaw and intellectual property.
• Thomas Lee — professor of constitutional law and international law at Fordham Law School.
• Curt Levey — President, Committee for Justice.
• Douglas O. Linder — Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Numerous articles on famous court cases.
• Edward Lopez — Assoc. Professor, San Jose State University. Author of The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Institutions.
• Nelson Lund — Professor, George Mason University School of Law. Constitutional scholar.
• Tibor Machan — Professor of Business and Economics, Chapman University, and fellow of the Hoover Institute.
• Harvey Mansfield — Professor of Government, Harvard University.
• Forrest McDonald — Professor of History, University of Alabama, specializing in the U.S. Constitution.
• Michael McConnell — Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Author of this article.
  
• Mary Brigid McManamon — Constitutional law professor at Widener University’s Delaware Law School
• John O. McGinnis — Professor, Northwestern University School of Law.
• Edwin Meese III — Former U.S. Attorney General.
• Eben Moglen — Professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School, serves without fee as general counsel of the Free Software Foundation.
• Andrew P. Napolitano — Former judge, Fox News commentator, author of Constitution in Exile and Constitutional Chaos.
• Robert G. Natelson — Fellow, Independence Institute.
• William E. Nelson — Professor, New York University School of Law, author of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Bruce T. Olson — Heads the American Grand Jury Foundation, leading grand jury reformer, wrote introduction to The Grand Jury, George J. Edwards (1906).
• William J. Olson — Constitutional attorney based in Virginia.
• Michael Stokes Paulsen — Professor, U. St. Thomas School of Law.
• John J. Pitney, Jr. — Professor of Politics, Claremont McKenna College.
• Saikrishna Prakash — Professor, U. San Diego School of Law.
• Stephen B. Presser — Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern U. Center for Legal Studies.
• Philip A. Pucillo — Assistant Professor of Law, Ave Maria School of Law.
• Paul A. Rahe — Professor of History, University of Tulsa. Author of Republics: Ancient & Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution, Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina Pr., 1994, and "The Martial Republics of Ancient Greece", Wilson Quarterly (1993).
• Michael B. Rappaport — Professor, University of San Diego School of Law.
• Glenn H. Reynolds — Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law.
• Ed Rivera — Lawyer specializing in constitutional cases, especially involving taxes and the RKBA.
• Gary Rosen — Managing Editor, Commentary Magazine. Author of American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding.
• Roger Roots — Lawyer and founder of the Prison Crisis Project, author of several articles.
• Michael S. Rozeff — Retired Professor of Finance, author of several articles on the financial crisis.
• David Schoenbrod — Professor, New York Law School, author of Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation, Yale University Press, 1995.
• Butler D. Shaffer — Professor, Southwestern University School of Law.
• Robert E. Shalhope — Professor of History, University of Oklahoma.
• Gregory C. Sisk — Professor, Drake University Law School.
• Bradley A. Smith — Professor, Capital University Law School. Former member, Federal Election Commission.
• Gerry Spence — Legendary trial lawyer, author of several dissident books.
• Lawrence Solum — Professor, U. San Diego Law School, law theory blog.
• Craig A. Stern — Associate Professor, Regent School of Law.
• Peter Suber — Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, author of the metagame Nomic and author of The Paradox of Self-Amendment.
• Nicholas J. "Nick" Szabo — Law Student.
• Deanell Tacha — Former Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Now Dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law. Author of "Independence of the Judiciary for the Third Century", Mercier LR, Winter
• Seth Barrett Tillman — Career federal law clerk.
• Joe A. Tucker — Professor, Regent School of Law.
• Jonathan Turley — Professor, George Washington University School of Law.
• John P. Tuskey — Assistant Professor, Regent School of Law.
• William Van Alstyne — Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.
• Paul Velte — Constitutional attorney based in Austin, Texas. Also has an organization, Peaceable Texans for Firearms Rights.
• Marc J. Victor — Was fired as an Arizona pro tempore judge for taking a principled position in defense of the Constitution after only one hour of service.
• Edwin Vieira — Lawyer, author of several books on constitutional law.
• Eugene Volokh — Professor, UCLA School of Law.
• William J. Watkins, Jr. — Author of Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
• Keith Whittington — Professor Politics, Princeton U.
• Walter E. Williams — Professor of Economics, George Mason University.
• Clyde N. Wilson — Professor of History, University of South Carolina. Author of From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition.
• Christopher Wolfe — Professor Political Science, Marquette U..
• John Wolfgram — Lawyer who challenged public corruption and was ordered to not practice law by a judge sua sponte.
• Thomas Woods — Fellow of Ludwig Mises Institute, author of nine books, some bestsellers.

Also see Scholars and Lawyers who specialize on firearms rights.

Activists

• Clayton Cramer — Second Amendment historian.
• H. Daniel Druck — Former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Representative in Illinois.
• Devvy Kidd — Patriot activist, former candidate for U.S. Representative in California.

Groups and individuals closely associated with groups

• Federalist Society — Composed of a number of lawyers, judges, legal scholars, and concerned citizens who tend to agree with us, and have local chapters in many areas.
• David Kopel — President of the Independence Institute.
• Roger Pilon — Vice president for legal affairs, Cato Institute.
• Jon Roland: Civic Curriculum Vitae — President of the Constitution Research and the Constitution Foundation, and webmaster of this site.
• Crossings through Space and Time (near death experience)
  
• Kent Snyder of the Liberty Committee — Caucus of members of Congress dedicated to seek a strict-constitutional approach to legislation.
• John Whitehead — Lawyer and Founder and President of the Rutherford Institute.

Historical Figures

Lawyers, law professors, historians, and scholars

• R. Carter Pittman — Constitutionalist, and scholar of George Mason, a major contributor to the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights. Collection of his writings.

External Links

• Comprehensive Listing of Notable Libertarians