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“ALEC”
NEWShas long been a
secretive collaboration
between
BigLegislation
Business and
Model
“conservative” politicians.
Civil Justice
Behind closed doors, they
ghostwrite
“model”
bills to
Commerce,
Insurance,
and Economic
be introduced
in state
Development
capitols
across the country.
This agenda--underwritten
Education
by global corporations-Energy,
includes
majorEnvironment,
tax
and Agriculture
loopholes
for big industries
and the
super rich,
Federal Relations
proposals to offshore U.S.
Health
Human
jobs and
gutand
minimum
wage,Services
and efforts to
weaken public health,
International Relations
safety, and environmental
protections.
Although
Public Safety
andmany
Elections
of these
bills have become
law, until now, their origin
Tax and Fiscal Policy
has been largely unknown.
With ALEC
EXPOSED, the
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Democracy
hopes more
Americans will study the
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ALEC’s’Corporate Board

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work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big
MODEL LEGISLATION
ALEC INITIATIVES
PUBLICATIONS
Business
has “a VOICE TASK
and aFORCES
VOTE,” according
to newly exposed
documents. DO YOU?

Model Legislation

Public Safety and Elections

Did you know the
NRA--the National

ALEC Resolution on McDonald vs. Chicago

Rifle Association-was the corporate
co-chair in 2011?

WHEREAS, the American Legislative Exchange Council is the nation’s largest
individual membership organization of state legislators, dedicated to advancing
the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and
individual liberty,

WHEREAS, the private, individual ownership and use of firearms has existed in
every American state throughout the nation's history and continues to this day as a
cherished and fundamental aspect of American culture; and

WHEREAS, in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller decision, the United States
Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right of
Americans, as individuals, to keep and bear arms in case of confrontation; and

WHEREAS, the Heller decision concerned the application of the Second
Amendment only as against federal regulation and left unresolved the judicial
question of whether the Second Amendment also prohibits infringement of the
right to keep and bear arms by state and local governments; and

WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court will address the application of the
Second Amendment to states and localities through either the Due Process Clause
or the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution in the case of McDonald vs. Chicago, Docket Number 08-1521;
and

--in recent past or present

• AT&T Services, Inc.
• centerpoint360
• UPS
• Bayer Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
search at www.SourceWatch.org.

WHEREAS, this case will have major implications for the legality of gun bans in
states and other restrictive gun laws in Chicago and other cities across the United
States; and

WHEREAS, state lawmakers have a profound interest in this case as guardians of
their constituents’ health, welfare, and constitutional rights; and

WHEREAS, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
extensively debated and ultimately ratified by the state legislatures;

THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the American Legislative Exchange
Council recognizes that the right of self-defense and the right to keep and bear
arms are fundamental rights
belonging to all free citizens everywhere, and that these rights have been deeply
rooted in America’s constitutional tradition;

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the American Legislative
Exchange Council affirms that the state legislatures that ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment understood the Amendment to incorporate the right of self-defense
and the right to keep and bear arms against state and local infringement; and

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the American Legislative
Exchange Council affirms that the Second Amendment and the fundamental right
of self-defense apply to Americans throughout the United States, regardless of
where they live against state and local governments so as to prohibit their
infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.

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